Flutterby™! : Filesystem metadata

A couple of people have linked to this note on filesystem metadata in OS X. As much as they love metadata, one of the most frustrating things for me about the MacOS is that files are not self-contained, and there's always some funky packaging that has to be done to pass files around. It's one of the reasons that over the years I've looked at using the metadata available on file systems like XFS, and not used them. I also find it harder to reassociate files, exposing file associations through the extension allows the user to easily change associations. I absolutely agree that hiding the extension is bad.