[ge-talk] Files as Messages

[mmadia]

> Hi all,
> 
> Long time with no activity on the list, so I thought I'd put forward 
> a 
> quick and random thought. What if we treated all files as flattened 
> BMessages? Attributes could be thought of as fields of the message 
> and 
> the data could be considered to be a special, 'magic' field.
> 
> I honestly have no idea what this could be useful for, but it sounded 
> interesting after 5 hours of driving and there hasn't been any 
> posting 
> for a while :)
> 
> - Danny

possibly as a way to store attributes+files on non-BFS partitions?