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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Multiple data streams...
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 19:18:22 +0400
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To: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Cc: Anders Widman <andewid@tnonline.net>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

Hello!

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:40:57PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:

> The Linux API does not support multiple data streams.  Support for extended 
> attributes has recently been added, this will do most things that you might 
> want to do with multiple streams and does it in a standard way that is 
> supported.

Current API in the form I saw, greatly limits its usage.
E.g. get_attribute(name) kind of function can only return whole attribute
at a time. Also current ext3 realisation limits attributes size to be
not bigger than one block. I have not looked at XFS realisation yet.

Bye,
    Oleg