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 13:35:43 -0700 Message-ID: <20040901203543.GK4455@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> <20040901202641.GJ4455@legion.cup.hp.com> <20040901203101.GG31934@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: <20040901203101.GG31934@mail.shareable.org> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:31:01PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > 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? Good question. It depends if the Microsoft ftp client is streams-aware, and understands the Microsoft OLE structured storage format and will do the linearisation on demand or not. I must confess I haven't tested this, as I don't ever run Windows other than on vmware sessions for Samba testing these days :-). Probably a non-Microsoft ftp client would lose part of the word doc. Jeremy.