On May 22, 2008, at 2:35 AM, Mike Fischer wrote:
FSRefs are also highly filesystem-dependent,
They are? That's news to me. In what way?
Sorry, what I meant to say there was that the unique features offered
by FSRefs are filesystem-dependent - in other words, using it on a non-
HFS+ disk will not give you much benefit over using a plain path,
since most of those file systems are path-based anyway. If you want to
make a reference to a file and be able to follow that file around as
it moves in the file system without having its file descriptor open,
that's only going to work on HFS+ due to the way HFS+ can reference
files by index rather than by name. If we end up moving to a
filesystem that doesn't support this functionality, it will be
difficult for me to determine what the purpose of using these would be
anymore.
Charles
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