From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 21:31:01 +0100 Message-ID: <20040901203101.GG31934@mail.shareable.org> 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; charset=us-ascii Cc: 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: Jeremy Allison Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040901202641.GJ4455@legion.cup.hp.com> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Jeremy Allison wrote: > > 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. 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? -- Jamie