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Yeah, IMO extended metadata attributes are fine for caching data that can be recovered via other means but generally violate the principal of least surprise. Fo
by packetlost 7mo ago
Yeah, IMO extended metadata attributes are fine for caching data that can be recovered via other means but generally violate the principal of least surprise. For them to be successful a standardized transparent container format or something would be necessary, but at that point the FS abstraction is leaking.
- prmph 7mo agoWhat about using the file name itself as the metadata storage?
- packetlost 7mo agoThat works but has strict length limits and is visibly ugly. Fine for very limited cases I guess
- jmathai 7mo agoI have used this approach with exiftool to add custom tags for “album”. https://stackoverflow.com/a/68284922 https://stackoverflow.com/a/68284922 Here is my source file for it. It was so long ago I don’t recall all the details but you can retrieve this information using exif commands. https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/blob/master/configs/ExifTool_config https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/blob/master/configs/ExifTo...