From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Hunt Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:22:41 +1200 Message-ID: <4699bb7b04090116227ad1e7c0@mail.gmail.com> References: <200408261819.59328.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <1093789802.27932.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1093804864.8723.15.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20040829193851.GB21873@jeremy1> <20040901201945.GE31934@mail.shareable.org> <20040901202641.GJ4455@legion.cup.hp.com> <20040901203101.GG31934@mail.shareable.org> <20040901203543.GK4455@legion.cup.hp.com> <20040901204746.GI31934@mail.shareable.org> <20040901205140.GL4455@legion.cup.hp.com> Reply-To: Oliver Hunt Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20040901205140.GL4455@legion.cup.hp.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jeremy Allison Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , reiserfs-list@namesys.com The loss of forks in the file is exxactly the problem you used to have when transferring native Mac files to a PC... This meant in order to transfer files to different filesystem you often needed to tar/zip/whatever them first. Bare in mind this would let us do the whole MacOS thing of putting an entire application(plus plugins, etc) inside one "file"... --Oliver On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:51:40 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:47:46PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Jeremy Allison wrote: > > > > I meant when I copy not using Samba. For example, I copy the .doc > > > > file in Windows NT to an FTP server. > > > > > > > > Does the FTP operation magically linearise the .doc streams on demand? > > > > Or does FTP lose part of the Word document? > > > > > > Good question. It depends if the Microsoft ftp client is streams-aware, > > > and understands the Microsoft OLE structured storage format and will do > > > the linearisation on demand or not. I must confess I haven't tested this, > > > as I don't ever run Windows other than on vmware sessions for Samba testing > > > these days :-). > > > > > > Probably a non-Microsoft ftp client would lose part of the word doc. > > > > So you're saying SCP, CVS, Subversion, Bitkeeper, Apache and rsyncd > > will _all_ lose part of a Word document when they handle it on a > > Window box? > > > > Ouch! > > Yep. It's the meta data that Word stores in streams that will get lost. > > > > Jeremy. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >