File Gateway Xattr to object metadata support?

Hi Owen,

Thanks for experimenting with Storage Gateway and for your question.

You are right, we don’t currently support extended attributes. Your workaround approach is sensible and you clearly understand the implications. We will make note of your ask and consider it as part of our backlog, in case we get more demand from other customers.

Thank you again for the inquiry, and let us know if there are any other questions you have or if we can help you in anyway.

Best,
AWS Storage Gateway team

Thanks for the update I do appreciate it!

Hopefully its something the team considers as I can see it being useful for those (kind of like us) who are trying to move from systems that are trying to use Xattrs and file metadata to improve automation etc..

As stated there is the option to use tags and Lambda's / API to add useful info, but as tags seem mainly focused towards aiding with understanding billing and adding filters to bills etc.. it seems less than optimal to use tags for essentially object metadata reasons.

I appreciate taking to time to respond as it has helped massively!

Owen.