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From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Subject: Re: Versioning file system
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:34:38 -0700
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:31:14PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> And that makes them different from extended attributes, how?

Streams on systems that support them allow lseek and are
accessed by fd's. EA's are always a blob of data, read/written
in their entirity.

Jeremy.