[Digikam-devel] Digikam and Nepomuk

[Martin Klapetek]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:57 PM, vivo75 at gmail.com <vivo75 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
>

Please voice your concern at the k-c-d thread ("Moving Baloo forward"),
someone raised it there as well. No point saying this here where no Baloo
developers are lurking :)

Cheers
-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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