From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 29 3:12:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from login-2.eunet.no (login-2.eunet.no [193.71.71.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FEE51516A; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 03:12:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (mbendiks@login-1.eunet.no [193.71.71.238]) by login-2.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.0/GN) with ESMTP id MAA13773; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:12:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04987; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:12:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:12:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: adrian@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: MIME types in filesystem (was Adding ... ) In-Reply-To: <19990428103120.4917.qmail@ewok.creative.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >The one problem I do see with this idea however, is that it only applies > >to binaries, and not data. > > If you want to do it for data, then you would have to make mime-type > (or whatever you use to slap on a file type) part of the filesystem > entry. I believe this could be managed through stacking, similar to how an UMSDOS fs would be implemented. You'd probably have a .MIME file or somesuch in each directory, containing this information, and supermount a stacking layer to manage these. Eivind would be the one to consult on this, though, I think. - Marius - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message