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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:17:40 -0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory
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> The fathers of Unix saw many things, but who's to say they saw all the
> metadata we will ever need?

who's to say they didn't.  (i hope we're talking about plan 9 here, not
unix.  in plan 9 many cumbersome traditions were broken.  if
they had wanted attributes, they would have added them.)

i don't see a specific problem in plan 9 that extra metadata solves.  
nemo makes a great point.  the only place that plan 9 has icons, they
are kept in /lib/face as files.

- erik