Re: File Notes

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 02:43, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> > 
> > There is no immedate plans for metadata, but the long term plan is to
> > make the metadata information availible to other apps. However, the
> > metadata that some filesystems support (extended attributes) doesn't
> > seem useful for this (the kernel guys tell me this every time I talk to
> > them about it).
> 
> In which way aren't EAs good enough for Nautilus-maintained metadata?

I don't remember the details. The kernel people claims its not designed
for this type of metadata, and that a user-space solution would be
better.

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