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by qwerty456127 817 days ago
I didn't know this, thanks. I thought xattrs and ADS are synonymous. Do SquashFS, ext4, HFS+ and APFS have ADS then?

I am looking forward to write my own cross-platform app which would rely on attaching additional data and metatata to my files.

"need to be in kernelspace" does not sound very scary because a user app probably doesn't need to do this very job itself - isn't there usually an OS-native command-line tool which can be invoked to do it?