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From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:52:18 -0700
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:48:41PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 
> This is why I favour storing all essential metadata (about the file's
> content) inside the file's contents, the primary stream.
> 
> We have another problem: what happens when users want to transfer data
> from Windows (with secondary streams) and MacOS (with resource forks)?

I can tell you that - right now we (Samba) has to drop all but the primary stream,
because the Linux filesystems don't have data stream support. Oh look,
we're losing user data (that's a *bad* thing :-).

Jeremy.