Re: [gnome-love] Meta Information in GNOME

[Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb eskimo com>]

> Except that you then need to make all tools that deal with files of any
> sort aware of metadata.  Which is an enormous undertaking.  What happens
> if I move a file with CLI tools instead of Nautilus?  If the metadata
> isn't attached to the file, it gets lost.  Same with emailing someone

Unless you also store the inode.  Then, it only gets lost when moving
across filesystems, which isn't that often.  In addition, a GNOME user
would be using Nautilus, and a user who is using CLI should be
knowledgeable enough to know the consequences of moving.


> the file, etc.  Or, if I have metadata on another user's files, how can
> I track where it goes?  These are really basic problems that need to be
> solved.  Remember also that things like th essentially an implementation
> detail.  

I think inode tracking would solve this.