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It does store that metadata in the directing in Mac OS native file systems. The DS files are only for non-Mac file systems like FAT32.

• Tagbert 4y ago
  “Directory” not “Directing”
• sthrs 4y ago
  This is not true. My APFS volumes are absolutely littered with .DS_Stores. They're generated every time you open a directory in the Finder.