Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11 Jan 2002 20:44:44 -0500: > I think that's the point of trying to figure out a prefix for the > attributes -- so that attribute names in directories won't collide with > file names. So if you want a thumbnail for your directory foo, you just > do "cp icon.png foo/..thumbnail". (No special tools needed! Unifying > namespaces is great!)
Why do we need to distinguish between attributes and files? We don't have to, or at least the file system doesn't have to (well, except for underlying indexability). The users can add a prefix or postfix to their names if they wish. But I wouldn't mind opening a file called: icon/thumbnail to get at the thumbnail's raw data. I'd also examine the "file" icon/thumbnail/content-type to get the MIME string that says what format the thumbnail is in (PNG, JPEG, etc). No need for prefixes, they just mean more typing at the keyboard! Particularly that hard to type "@" symbol :-). - Alex
