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by lstodd 404 days ago
if you go look up how xattrs work, you will understand it's no different than just reading a chunk of the file in question, and in fact can be slower.

xattrs are better be forgotten already. it was just as dumb idea as macos resource forks/

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Also locks you in to filesystems that support them, which are not all of them or on all operating systems.