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From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <lkml@felipe-alfaro.com>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:42:20 +0200
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On Thursday 26 August 2004 16:00, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>
> I think Hans is not planning turning old "file is a stream of bytes"
> into eight-stream octopus. One stream will remain as a 'main' one,
> which contains actual data. Others will keep metadata, etc...
>
> Note that even today's files aren't simple "streams of bytes"
> because they also have names,mode bits etc.

This is just exactly how NTFS does work: there's an unnamed stream (which is 
the one that the majority of userspace programs do manipulate) which contains 
the user data (the pixels from a PMG image, or text from a text file, etc.), 
and there are named streams which not all kind of applications do know how to 
handle.