<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2014/1/21 Vishesh Handa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me@vhanda.in" target="_blank">me@vhanda.in</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Tuesday 21 January 2014 02:24:01 Francesco R. wrote:<br>
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> just always use an additional database, xattrs are not the way to go.<br>
> Managing xattrs require a conscious user, many programs by default don't<br>
> even copy xattrs.<br>
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Plus, with extended attributes the metadata is never lost. With the additional<br>
database, if the file is moved to a place which is not tracked, then the data<br>
will be lost.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote>I'm just curious, the additional database uses the filename or a hash of the file content as the key for the metadata?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
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Vishesh Handa<br>
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[1] <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes/" target="_blank">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes/</a><br>
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