Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:21:00PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > And how does that work out for you when you keep your multimedia files
> > on exteral USB drives for portability among linux/mac/windows boxes?
> I guess it depends on the file system. If it is a FAT file system,
> then you are probably stuck with something like the present system.
> If it is a system that supports extended file attributes, then you
> only need to update the attributes for new/changed files. Now, if
> the idea turns out to be a practical one, then hopefully it will
> also be supported on the MAC. Two out of three aren't bad...

This is exactly what Apple *used* to do.

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