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It's just nonsense that this metadata would be dropped as files scattered across the filesystem, rather than simply held in a single location on the host machin
by nfoz 12y ago
It's just nonsense that this metadata would be dropped as files scattered across the filesystem, rather than simply held in a single location on the host machine. They're a fragment of the OS, not of each directory.
- PinguTS 12y agoWhich would mean that those meta data is only available on this host and not anywhere. The problem is the short coming of those file systems not to allow to store arbitrary meta data to any file.
- nfoz 12y agoThat's exactly what I want though. "Folder display preferences" are a thing that pertain to exactly one instance of one operating system. If I want to share "folder displays" to a different computer (which seems rather unnecessary), that seems like an explicit action I might take between the two computers, and all that metadata should be a single bundled file that is transferred between machines. Not per-directory metadata that is bundled into my filesystem everywhere.