Re: BeFS or BFS or other filesystem for linux with attributes on debian

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:27:38AM -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
> BeOS had (and i imagine Haiku has) a file system that allows all kinds
> of attributes to be attached to a file.

Most self-respecting file systems on Linux have extended
attributes these days (at least for a value of "ext4" for
"self-respecting", that is; for the others, consult the
file system's man page ;-)

You need the program "attr" for that, present in the Debian
package "attr" (not installed by default).

Sample session:

  # create a file to play with:
  tomas@trotzki:~$ touch mumpf
  # set mumpf's 'color' attribute to the value 'red'
  tomas@trotzki:~$ attr -s color -V red mumpf
  Attribute "color" set to a 3 byte value for mumpf:
  red
  # list mumpf's attributes:
  tomas@trotzki:~$ attr -l mumpf
  Attribute "color" has a 3 byte value for mumpf
  # get mumpf's 'color' attribute's value:
  tomas@trotzki:~$ attr -g color mumpf
  Attribute "color" had a 3 byte value for mumpf:
  red

Is that what you were looking for?

Cheers
- -- tomás
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