From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Boyer Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 18:10:13 -0700 Message-ID: <20040904011012.GA27405@pants.nu> 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> <1094118524.4842.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeremy Allison , Jamie Lokier , Trond Myklebust , 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: Alan Cox Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1094118524.4842.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:48:46AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > What I don't understand is the tie between Linux having such streams and > Windows doing it for Samba to work. Netatalk has always handle this for > Macintosh and portably. Presumably any Samba support would need to > handle OS's without wacky files for portability too ? I'm not 100% sure on the samba side, but I think there is a pretty significant difference. On the Mac, the problem of copying forks and metadata onto non-Mac systems was recognized early on. There are several standard formats for serialized versions of this data. If you take the files that netatalk writes and copy them directly to a Mac separately, there are tools that can convert them back to the original format with all the data intact. I've never seen such a thing for NTFS named streams. Brad Boyer flar@allandria.com