From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:48:46 +0100 Message-ID: <1094118524.4842.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jamie Lokier , Trond Myklebust , Denis Vlasenko , Rik van Riel , Christer Weinigel , Spam , Andrew Morton , wichert@wiggy.net, Linus Torvalds , reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, Linux Filesystem Development , Linux Kernel Mailing List , flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Jeremy Allison In-Reply-To: <20040901202641.GJ4455@legion.cup.hp.com> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 21:26, Jeremy Allison wrote: > Right now no, because when Samba refuses the stream open, Word falls > back into a "tar"-like mode where it linearises the streams into the > data (it's a legacy mode for storing data on a FAT drive, not an NTFS > drive). However, the problem is that no currently supported Microsoft > OS doesn't have streams-capable NTFS support. That implies that samba can do the same transform set without kernel help and you'd even get the advantages of being able to transfer the stuff around sanely afterwards. What I don't understand is the tie between Linux having such streams and Windows doing it for Samba to work. Netatalk has always handle this for Macintosh and portably. Presumably any Samba support would need to handle OS's without wacky files for portability too ?