On: Hardware Virtualization

[krylon]

From what I heard, the filesystem was very cool. You could attach arbitrary key-value pairs to files, and e.g. rather than store song metadata in ID3 tags or whatever, it was stored as filesystem metadata, making it searchable by any program without knowledge of a file's internals. As I recall reading, one could create a virtual folder that contained the results of a search, e.g. "all MP3 files where artist='Pink Floyd'" and use that as a playlist.

I have played around a bit with Haiku, but have not figured out how to do that so far.

[waddlesplash → krylon]

Have you read the User Guide on these subjects? https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/workshop-filetype...

[adastra22 → waddlesplash]

Far better is the book by the creator of the filesystem: http://www.nobius.org/dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf

[krylon → waddlesplash]

I have not, but I shall! Thank you!