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An index could be built on top of this though if desired. No need to have it in the FS itself.
by int_19h 2y ago
An index could be built on top of this though if desired. No need to have it in the FS itself.
- yencabulator 2y agoBut then there's no point in storing anything in xattrs.
- int_19h 2y agoThe reason would be that it's there as the source of truth, and when files e.g. get copied around, so does the metadata. The indexer doesn't need to be synchronous wrt such operations though, it can just watch the FS for changes and spin up reindexing as needed asynchronously.