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But then there's no point in storing anything in xattrs.
by yencabulator 2y ago
But 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.