#xattrs
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #xattrs from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #xattrs
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-19 18:25 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-19 18:25 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #xattrs.
Live pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-19 18:25 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 4 public posts (spanning ~3527 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (3) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.8
Top of the latest posts
@Thorsted @chronodm @archivist_Liz The real-world tests @beet_keeper, my friend Tom and I run on different FS and tools, and publishing our findings, hopefully helps to put more attention on handling and preserving #xattrs: It's great fun!
@Thorsted @chronodm @archivist_Liz ...which is great! Thx @beet_keeper ! I've also contacted the following projects: Samba, OpenMediaVault (OMV), rsync, engrampa, GNU find and others, to put #xattrs as "blip" on their radar. OMV now has xat
https://cloud.arkthis.com/index.php/s/AHAlodeck2026?dir=/videos A 50 minute show-and-tell, about #AHAlodeck, and how #xattrs on #ZFS can be used as #DataCentric catalog/environment. Enjoy! Perfect for #longterm preservation #dltp - and any
What “xattrs” means
WikipediaExtended file attributes are file system features that enable users to associate computer files with metadata not interpreted by the filesystem, whereas regular attributes have a purpose strictly defined by the filesystem. Unlike forks, which can usually be as large as the maximum file size, extended attributes are usually limited in size to a value significantly smaller than the maximum file size. Typical uses include storing the author of a document, the character encoding of a plain-text docu
“Extended file attributes” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#xattrs across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #xattrs straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/xattrs