Re: Performance

[Darryl Rees <rees netnam vn>]

Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:

> > To: Alexander Larsson
> >    
> >
> > (stuff deleted)
> > what about storing the mime type in an extended attribute if 
> > the file system supports them. If the file system doesn't it 
> > will work as always has (doing mime type sniffing) but if 
> > there is an EA containing the mime type we would have to go 
> > trouht the sniffing process, and thus it would be faster.
> >    
>
> That sounds like just a more elegant cache to me, which wouldn't solve the
> staleness problem.
>
> Murray Cumming
> www.murrayc.com
> murrayc usa net
>  
What about if it were an XDG standard? Ultimately you'd think real 
metadata would be a better solution than either sniffing or file 
extensions...

Regards,
Long.