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		ianai on Jan 16, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive... Sure, but adding metadata to zfs would probably be easier than modernizing BeFS. Just in general as FSes are very worthy of being a project unto themselves. Thinking of low lying fruit to get maximum value easily. BeFS doesn’t have to go anywhere either.

jonhohle on Jan 18, 2024 [–]

Dominic Giampaolo (the author of BeFS) did essentially that with Spotlight (also the author of Spotlight) on HFS & APFS (also the author of APFS).

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