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Bug 62819 - Extended attributes to store metadata
Extended attributes to store metadata
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Other
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: gnome-vfs maintainers
gnome-vfs maintainers
: 63642 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-10-22 18:32 UTC by Matt Powell
Modified: 2008-09-06 18:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Matt Powell 2001-10-22 18:32:01 UTC 
It might be worthwhile to provide methods of storing metadata for Nautilus
other than the Nautilus metafiles. I was thinking that extended attributes
could be used to store metadata. Extended attributes are name/value pairs
associated with a file. There is an experimental patch to provide extended
attributes under ext2 <a href="http://acl.bestbits.at">here</a>. However,
this patch only allows 1-4KB (depending on block size) of extended
attributes to be associated to a single file. <a
href="oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/">XFS</a> also provides extended attributes
and allows up to 64KB to be stored in the value of an extended attribute.
Storing metadata in extended attributes should speed Nautilus up at least a
tiny bit.
Comment 1 Darin Adler 2001-10-22 18:36:14 UTC 
The development path here is:

    1) add metadata support to gnome-vfs
    2) enhance metadata support in gnome-vfs

So this is a future idea for gnome-vfs, not nautilus, believe it or
not!
Comment 2 Christophe Fergeau 2003-05-23 20:26:54 UTC 
*** Bug 63642 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 André Klapper 2008-09-06 18:54:10 UTC 
gnome-vfs has been deprecated and superseded by gio/gvfs since GNOME 2.22, hence mass-closing many of the gnome-vfs requests/bug reports. This means that gnome-vfs is NOT actively maintained anymore, however patches are still welcome.

If your reported issue is still valid for gio/gvfs, please feel free to file a bug report against glib/gio or gvfs.

@Bugzilla mail recipients: query for
      gnome-vfs-mass-close
to get rid of this notification noise all together.


General further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS 
Reasons behind this decision are listed at http://www.mail-archive.com/gnome-vfs-list@gnome.org/msg00899.html