> To move a file to another machine and have the metadata be copied and re- > indexed on that new machine as well. The copy process just needs to take > care of transfering the xattr. This can even work when using a USB stick or > so as interim medium.
I'm all for xattrs, but this thread really raises a nice question of which annotations/tags/whatever should be public and which should not. Cheerio, Ivan -- Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. -- Isaac Asimov