Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

Mo McKinlay
2001-01-19T15:49:51Z

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Today, Michael Rothwell (rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us) wrote:

> The filesystem, when registering that it supports the "named streams"
> namespace, could specify its preferred delimiter to the VFS as well.
> Ext4 could use /directory/file/stream, and NTFS could use
> /directory/file:stream.

Erk - nice from a programming point of view, horrible from a consistency
one. The nice thing about VFS is that it provides a consistent abstract
interface - I'd place a small amount of money on the fact that Al Viro
would probably flame you to high heaven for that last suggestion if he was
paying much attention to this thread :-)

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Mo McKinlay
mmckinlay@gnu.org
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