From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wichert Akkerman Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:05:40 +0200 Sender: Wichert Akkerman Message-ID: <20040826000540.GG2612@wiggy.net> References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825152805.45a1ce64.akpm@osdl.org> <112698263.20040826005146@tnonline.net> <1453698131.20040826011935@tnonline.net> <20040825163225.4441cfdd.akpm@osdl.org> <20040825233739.GP10907@legion.cup.hp.com> <20040825234629.GF2612@wiggy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Tierra Cc: ReiserFS Previously Tierra wrote: > It's not so much about samba having a use for them as it is about > other applications using them between platforms in the same way. But what for? Personally I still haven't seen a good use for them. Apple's resource fork comes close though. > NTFS had very poor support for them for a long time. At one point I > was convinced it was going to be taken out eventually, but SP2 just > showed with even better support for them, and more MS software has > started using them. I wonder how they intend to shoehorn that into distribution across other media such as emails or zip files. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.