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This infuriates me. There are so many problems I run into, day-to-day even, which could be readily solved if files/folders just had a stringly-typed key-value m
by kortex 6y ago
This infuriates me. There are so many problems I run into, day-to-day even, which could be readily solved if files/folders just had a stringly-typed key-value metadata store of arbitrary size which was portable-ish across file systems. Heck, even just one bytes field I can dump json or some serde into, that doesn't impinge on the actual file bytestream. xattr is close but no cigar.
Instead you either need sidecar files, archives, or custom binary formats.
It's as if the posix filesystem abstraction crystallized a bit too soon (same like tcp/ip)
- rwallace 6y agoI'm curious about the specifics of the problems this would solve, having been doing some thinking about what an ideal file system would look like. In particular, is this something you would need primarily for files you create, or existing files created by other people? And, to be fully useful, would it need to allow the attaching of such metadata to arbitrary files/folders regardless of type?