> so one could read/parse the metadata from virtually any language. This isn’t a use case for file system metadata. It only makes sense internally anyway. Peop

> so one could read/parse the metadata from virtually any language. This isn’t a use case for file system metadata. It only makes sense internally anyway. People interact with filesystem metadata through standardized APIs, not metadata dumps. > It may also make debugging a lot easier since it is human readable. It’s also basically guaranteed to introduce a ton of bugs; parsing and generating JSON is orders of magnitude more complicated than generating and reading an unambiguous tagged binary format.