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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Different representations of the same
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:54:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <409a9964c8f20c0934ba6477744a2a89@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245193951.9958.1909.camel@work>

>The only drawback so far seems to be the fact that if one
>needs flexibility, then every file becomes a subdirectory.
>Not that it is scary or anything, but it smells too much
>of resource forks (or may be I'm just too easily scared).

it's the other way round: they ought to have represented
collections of related data and metadata using directories
instead of inventing rubbish like resource forks.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-17  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-09 17:14 [9fans] Different representations of the same file/resource in a synthetic FS Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-06-09 17:27 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-06-09 18:10   ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-09 19:01     ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-06-11  3:44   ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-06-11  4:49     ` [9fans] Different representations of the same lucio
2009-06-13  1:02       ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-06-13  1:56         ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-16 23:12           ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-06-17  8:54             ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2009-06-18  0:20               ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-06-13  3:43         ` lucio
2009-06-16 23:15           ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-06-09 17:30 ` [9fans] Different representations of the same file/resource in a synthetic FS J.R. Mauro
2009-06-17 17:05 [9fans] Different representations of the same Chad Brown

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