Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

Michael Rothwell
2001-01-16T15:21:21Z

"James H. Cloos Jr." wrote:
>
> Michael> Please read and comment! :)
>
> There should be some discussion on what to do about filenames which
> contain colons in such a setup. Moving a file w/ a colon from a fs
> which does not support named streams to one which does should DTRT;
> exactly what TRT is should be discussed.

It seems that if you move a file with a colon -- "file:colon" -- in the
name from Ext2 to "StreamFS," you would end up with a file named "file"
with a stream named "colon". When copying back, you would get
"file:colon" back.