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In message <1358399475.2860.56.camel@nat.cfdhome.com>, Charles DeBardeleben wri
tes:

>I have to wonder if it may
>be a better idea to think about a general mechanism to have the
>meta-data of a file [...]

Look at UFS Extended Attributes ?

When we did UFS2, I tried to make Kirk give directories a magic header
too: "#!/bin/ls\n" 

I think that's the only time I've managed to leave Kirk speech-less :-)

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