From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" Subject: Re: Multiple data streams... Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 10:30:20 -0500 EST Message-ID: <3134644043-BeMail@cr593174-a> References: <200304022240.57346.russell@coker.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200304022240.57346.russell@coker.com.au> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Russell Coker wrote on Wed, 2 Apr 2003 22:40:57 +1000: > 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. In case people don't know, extra streams are used extensively in BeOS (for icons, e-mail attributes (subject, sender, date, etc), MIME types of files and lots of other things). Sometimes I wish their was a ReiserFS implementation for BeOS so that performance would improve (small streams are stored in the inode, but once that overflows, things get slow and it uses at least two disk blocks for even the smallest stream data). - Alex