Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:28:14 -0500 |
| |
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 18:14 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:53:35PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Does the Windows Explorer draw icons based only on name and metadata? > > >From what I can see it does icons on non-executable entirely based on > the extension and nothing else on the first pass. Executables are > looked inside for an icon (and there seems to be cache effects at > times, especially visible on the desktop). Then for images a second > pass generates icons depending on the contents (with, once again, a > cache hidden somewhere). > > Not a bad strategy, too. Doing a file(1) on everything can only be > slow given the random disk accesses it generates. Maybe a file(1) as > a _second_ pass would work.
Gack, does Nautilus really do file(1) on everything? That's unspeakably awful.
Lee
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |