GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 68347
Support extended attributes of filesystem
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:55:41 UTC
SGI's XFS filesystem supports "extended attributes". They are similar to BeOS's filesystem attributes. Basically you can add any number of fields with arbitary (string) names and arbitary (text or binary) content to a filesystem node (file, dir, symlink etc.). This is perfect to store meta-data. BeOS uses this to store each email in a separate file and to store common headers like Subject and From as these attributes. The file manager (which supports attributes) is then the mail folder viewer. You could do the same with mp3 files and their ID3 data or to organize your self-written text files. Of course, for this to work, the file manager has to support extended attributes. I will file individual bugs for the different features and make this one a tracking bug.
> SGI's XFS filesystem Not that somebody misunderstands it: This filesystem is now available as open-source for Linux <http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/>.
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There has been no activity for 11 years. Is this still relevant?
Yes, the lack of this feature seriously hindered the adoption of EA in practical use, and still does.
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