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Interesting. It's the first time for me to see a use of file attributes in Linux. What are the common use cases of file attributes? Also, I just notice that ev
by kbumsik 7y ago
Interesting. It's the first time for me to see a use of file attributes in Linux. What are the common use cases of file attributes?
Also, I just notice that every files in Dropbox folder has com.dropbox.attributes key with unreadable binary value. Does anyone have an idea about this field?
- progval 7y ago> What are the common use case of file attributes? CephFS (a distributed filesystem) uses them to allow users to control the layout of directories and files, ie. how they are split into chunks and what pool they are stored on; and each pool has its own replication settings. https://docs.ceph.com/docs/mimic/cephfs/file-layouts/ https://docs.ceph.com/docs/mimic/cephfs/file-layouts/
- _visgean 7y agoits dropbox id for each file - useful when you move files around, dropbox client can check the ids with the data on server and decide whether to upload the file or not...
- kbumsik 7y agoThat is a clever approach to track files. Thanks for info.