RE: Nautilus, metadata and extendet attributes

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

Le mar 27/01/2004 à 09:32, raphael bosshard slm admin ch a écrit :
> As far as I know, EAs are cached. Some more
> information anyone?) it is definitely faster than sniffing the content of
> the file and try to match it against some regexes (This may be a bit
> oversimplyfied.)

What do you mean by "EAs are cached" ? They are all stored linearly
on-disk ? IMHO this is highly implementation-dependant, and in the case
where you have to seek to read each EA, you'll have exactly the same
delay as when you sniff all files.

	Xav