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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:12:53 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Denis Vlasenko wrote:

> I think Hans is not planning turning old "file is a stream of bytes"
> into eight-stream octopus. One stream will remain as a 'main' one,
> which contains actual data. Others will keep metadata, etc...

This is exactly what the Samba people want, though. 

Office suites can store a document with embedded images
and spread sheets "easily" by putting the text, the
images and spread sheets all in different file streams.

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