From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:26:41 -0700 Message-ID: <20040901202641.GJ4455@legion.cup.hp.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> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeremy Allison , Trond Myklebust , Alan Cox , 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: Jamie Lokier Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040901201945.GE31934@mail.shareable.org> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:19:45PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Jeremy Allison wrote: > > (most of the streams in a Word file for instance are quite small) > > Streams in a Word file? Yep. > Are you saying that when I copy a .doc file onto my Linux box and off, > I lose part of a Word document? 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. This means that in a future MS-Office revision, this backwards support may be broken by accident or by design (less likely, Microsoft really don't do that kind of thing without very high level requests :-) and no testers at Microsoft will notice (because they only test against MS servers). Jeremy.