Bjartur Thorlacius dixit (2010-06-14, 23:24): > On 6/14/10, Matthew Bauer <mjbaue...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I wish modern filesystems would allow some way of identifying a file type > > besides in the filename. It seems like that would make things more straight > > forward.
> Surely many modern filesystem support xattrs (extended file attributes)? > One should be able to use them to store media types. Besides, hfs has had this feature (along with the whole data/resource fork schizophreny) for the last 15 or twenty years. -- [a]