[Digikam-devel] Digikam and Nepomuk

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On 01/20/14 12:43, Martin Klapetek wrote:

>     "This metadata is now stored with the extended attributes of the
>     file instead
>     of storing it in a separate database."
> 
>     If this refers to operating system level extended attributes, I will be
>     interested to see how size limitations and cross-platform issues may be
>     solved.
> 
> 
> Yup, it's using xattr. Someone raised this very quesion on
> kde-core-devel, but it has no answer yet afaik.
>  

Let me predict this will be another _mayor_ fail (unless this change).
Xattr ar NOT a reliable way to store data, they can be lost in an
incredible amount of ways.

By default not even rsync does copy them (-X, --xattrs
preserve extended attributes)