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[Selim]

Does anyone have thoughts on the best way to store metadata for a file? For example; owner, last modified, etc.
So far my thoughts have been a large table serialise to a file for storage after a shutdown that would be put into memory on boot.
My other thought was to store it within the file name as a serialised table and modify the fs api to unserialize it to get the data and the actual file name.
Anyone else have thoughts?

Edited by Selim, 17 January 2016 - 08:31 PM.

[Wojbie]

Well file name one sounds problematic due to fact that some symbols are not allowed in file-names and they may exist in meta-data.
Personally would go with one big file updated every time data changes instead of shutdown cause you can't detect all shutdown types.

Edited by Wojbie, 17 January 2016 - 08:36 PM.

[Selim]

Wojbie, on 17 January 2016 - 08:35 PM, said:

Well file name one sounds problematic due to fact that some symbols are not allowed in file-names and they may exist in meta-data.
Personally would go with one big file updated every time data changes instead of shutdown cause you can't detect all shutdown types.

That is what I had meant, save it on change rather than before shutdown.

[KingofGamesYami]

http://www.computerc...all-file-types/

[Selim]

KingofGamesYami, on 17 January 2016 - 08:39 PM, said:

http://www.computerc...all-file-types/

Reading through that it appears to be a great solution. Thank you very much.

[MKlegoman357]

Selim, on 17 January 2016 - 08:49 PM, said:

Reading through that it appears to be a great solution. Thank you very much.

It's not only a good solution - it's being used by other programs already.