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From: "Michael Rothwell" <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us>
To: "Peter Samuelson" <peter@cadcamlab.org>
Cc: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:40:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <012901c0803f$b5e62df0$8501a8c0@gromit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A5E10F5.716F83B7@holly-springs.nc.us> <m3snmpgu8t.fsf@austin.jhcloos.com> <3A6466D0.6587C11A@holly-springs.nc.us> <20010116182806.B6364@cadcamlab.org>


> What if you copy both 'filename' and 'filename:ext' onto the same fs?
> Do they get combined into one file?

ON Ext2, you get two files. On NTFS, you get one file, and a stream on that
file.

> Any semantics by which 'filename:stream' and 'filename' refer to the
> same file would be b0rken.  If instead you use 'filename/stream'

That does not allow streams on directories, otherwise I agree.

-M



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-17  1:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-11 20:00 named streams, extended attributes, and posix Michael Rothwell
2001-01-11 22:22 ` Michael Rothwell
2001-01-12  6:27 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2001-01-16 15:20   ` Michael Rothwell
2001-01-17  0:28     ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-17  0:37       ` Mo McKinlay
2001-01-18  1:03         ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-18 21:30           ` Mo McKinlay
2001-01-19  8:14             ` Michael Rothwell
2001-01-19 14:19               ` Mo McKinlay
2001-01-19 14:39                 ` Michael Rothwell
2001-01-19 14:59                   ` Mo McKinlay
2001-01-19 15:11                     ` Michael Rothwell
2001-01-19 15:20                       ` Mo McKinlay
2001-01-19 15:44                         ` Michael Rothwell
2001-01-19 15:49                           ` Mo McKinlay
2001-01-19 16:04                             ` Michael Rothwell
2001-01-19 16:07                               ` Mo McKinlay
2001-01-19 16:13                                 ` Michael Rothwell
2001-01-19 16:33                                   ` Mo McKinlay
2001-01-29 15:20                                     ` Michael Rothwell
2001-01-29 15:46                                       ` Mo McKinlay
2001-01-21  7:27                               ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-22  9:19                                 ` Michael Rothwell
2001-01-25 20:41               ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-25 21:07                 ` Thunder from the hill
2001-01-25 23:03                   ` alex
2001-01-17  4:40       ` Michael Rothwell [this message]
2001-01-17  2:05         ` Peter Samuelson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-25 23:15 Leif Sawyer
2001-01-26  2:41 ` Steven N. Hirsch

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