What kind of information would it be useful to have on this distributed filesystem concept? It doesn't need to exactly mirror Unix. Should we have a metadata event that contains relay hints, for instance?

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Couldn't metadata be in the drive event, analog to 30040s?

Potentially. Just throw a bunch of tags on there.

Though that wouldn't work if we wanted to tie metadata to each level of the file tree.

In addition to the traceback, or instead of it and including the traceback as metadata?

In addition to traceback.

I'm not going to tie two different events to a third event. Event spaghetti.

Well a file has a path which describes the traversal to reach the desired leaf. So it contains a pointer to the root, which could be fetched for metadata. So as long as there is enough information to find the root, then you shouldn't have any trouble fetching metadata from a child node.

It's turning into too many separate events, IMO. Complexity x² with each additional event.