Il 21/01/2014 02:10, Vishesh Handa ha scritto: > On Saturday 18 January 2014 12:53:38 Jonathan Marten wrote: >> Vishesh Handa <m...@vhanda.in> writes: >>> http://community.kde.org/Baloo >> Thanks for producing that useful page, and of course for all your past >> and current work on Nepomuk and Baloo. There is one statement there >> that makes me a little concerned: >> >> "This metadata is now stored with the extended attributes of the file >> instead of storing it in a separate database." >> >> Am I right in assuming that this means xattr? If so, would there be >> implications for cases where those extended attributes may not get >> preserved or are not supported: >> >> - simple copy/move of a file using cp/mv (with the default options) >> - copy/move of a file using KIO >> - network file systems (NFS or SMB) >> - backup/restore >> - FAT filesystems >> - platforms other then Linux >> >> Hoping that none of those will make normal use impossible, but if >> there would be problems or workarounds needed with any of these then >> they ought to be addressed early. >> > Hey > > The idea is that in systems which do not support xattr a secondary database > will be used to store the information. So, it will be very similar to the > situation we had with Nepomuk. just always use an additional database, xattrs are not the way to go. Managing xattrs require a conscious user, many programs by default don't even copy xattrs.
> > I still have to implement this. maybe start without additional metadata, but xattrs must not reach user systems > >> Regards, Jonathan Regards, Francesco Riosa