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#AHAlodeck R&D news:

- Testdataset: 386.5 GB
- 120.000 filesystem objects (files and folders)
- 7616839 key/value informations gathered/extracted as #xattrs.

Result: A 55 MB .tar.bz2 #holotar.

Fully search-and-filter-able by any of the 7 Mio xattrs.

Extraction step required only once (6h)
Afterwards:
Indexing done in 60 SECONDS! 🤩 🥇

I've made an interesting discovery:
2 years ago, I created a tar.bz2: containing a files-in-folder: 0-Byte filesize, but ID3 music metadata fully available - stored in the filesystem attributes (#xattrs)

Now I've realized that I can use this #tar not only to browse media collections (#DAM) in a highly portable and accessible format, but also that I can /write/ attributes (and other filesystem/metadata) changes to this "#holotar".

Using this as UI to interact on a lightweight copy of any data.