more idle thoughts - about file metadata

Posted by jimspoon
Nov 17, 2012 at 04:07 AM

Slartibartfarst, it does make sense and is very useful!

I am particularly intrigued by the use of alternate data streams ... I really didn’t know much about them and I’ve been doing a bit of research today ...

this was interesting - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(file_system)

I didn’t know how easy it is to “attach” an ADS to a file .. as shown here ...

http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/altds

Seems like there could be a lot of potential here for an information organizer - if it could (1) attach data fields to external files in alternate data streams that travel with the files; (2) index those data fields; and (3) search and retrieve files matching queries.

I don’t know if there are organizers which make use of the alternate data streams in this way.

I will keep reading and report back on any interesting findings.

jim