Re: Beagle presence on Wikipedia
- From: "D Bera" <dbera web gmail com>
- To: "Nirbheek Chauhan" <nirbheek chauhan gmail com>
- Cc: Joe Shaw <joe joeshaw org>, dashboard-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: Beagle presence on Wikipedia
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:31:36 -0500
>  >  I read that section as Spotlight indexing the metadata itself stored
>  >  on the file system, which Beagle doesn't really do.  Beagle does use
>  >  that file system metadata for its own bookkeeping, though.
>
>  /me reads up on what all Spotlight does
>
>  Ah, I see, so Spotlight also indexes the filesystem metadata. I took
>  the phrase "file metadata" from the wikipedia article in the wrong
>  context -- content attributes rather than filesystem metadata.
Umm... what exactly is "filesystem metadata" other than name, size,
last modified time etc. ?
- dBera
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