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Re: "tags by using xattr. first of all, why tags? did you try..."
To be fair xattr tags are useful in some cases. Years ago I wrote a file manager in Lisp that allowed you to change the color to the file, to keep organized. Macs used to do it an still may, I haven't touched an apple product this century.
It made sense because that kind of tagging is ephemeral anf not very important. Losing tags is no big deal. I would never trust anything important to hidden tags.
Oct 03 · 2 months ago
🐙 norayr [OP] · Oct 16 at 23:55:
Where do you store your tags? If external, they will get separated, lost, miscopied or get out of sync.
yes as you figured the tags are in file system. but cp -a copies the file with the tags. i also tested on nfs, and tags were working.
yes, in theory it should be easy to script and modify tags, for them to be useful.
i have no tags now. your mp3 collection had tags made by different people probably.
i tag myself. i tag films and music and books.
still i need to add recursive search in directories.
I thought I would never need to use non-linux filesystem's but over decades things come up. My partner likes Macs, smart TVs reject Linux filesystems, files get copied across networks....
🐙 norayr [OP] · Oct 23 at 00:37:
i just realized i didn't post a link to video which features how tags are used:
— etiquette, the tagging system for linux fs.
tags by using xattr. first of all, why tags? did you try to organize a book or music or movie collection in a file system? what directories to create? sort by country? language? director? with tags you can even tag as directors: woody allen and actors: woody allen. i have been written this tool: [https link] it currently only works on linux, the dependency it requires, [https link] has only linux implementation. but it is possible to add implementations for bsds, illumos, macos. you can...