From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:41:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:41:42 -0500 Received: from 513.holly-springs.nc.us ([216.27.31.173]:50099 "EHLO 513.holly-springs.nc.us") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:41:39 -0500 Message-ID: <012901c0803f$b5e62df0$8501a8c0@gromit> From: "Michael Rothwell" To: "Peter Samuelson" Cc: "James H. Cloos Jr." , In-Reply-To: <3A5E10F5.716F83B7@holly-springs.nc.us> <3A6466D0.6587C11A@holly-springs.nc.us> <20010116182806.B6364@cadcamlab.org> Subject: Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:40:27 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/