8 ms·
if you go look up how xattrs work, you will understand it's no different than just reading a chunk of the file in question, and in fact can be slower. xattrs a
by lstodd 1y ago
if you go look up how xattrs work, you will understand it's no different than just reading a chunk of the file in question, and in fact can be slower.
xattrs are better be forgotten already. it was just as dumb idea as macos resource forks/
- SoftTalker 1y agoAlso locks you in to filesystems that support them, which are not all of them or on all operating systems.