Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Oliver Hunt
2004-09-01T23:40:09Z

The loss of forks in the file is exxactly the problem you used to have
when transferring native Mac files to a PC...

This meant in order to transfer files to different filesystem you
often needed to tar/zip/whatever them first.

Bare in mind this would let us do the whole MacOS thing of putting an
entire application(plus plugins, etc) inside one "file"...

--Oliver

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:51:40 -0700, Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:47:46PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > > I meant when I copy not using Samba. For example, I copy the .doc
> > > > file in Windows NT to an FTP server.
> > > >
> > > > Does the FTP operation magically linearise the .doc streams on demand?
> > > > Or does FTP lose part of the Word document?
> > >
> > > Good question. It depends if the Microsoft ftp client is streams-aware,
> > > and understands the Microsoft OLE structured storage format and will do
> > > the linearisation on demand or not. I must confess I haven't tested this,
> > > as I don't ever run Windows other than on vmware sessions for Samba testing
> > > these days :-).
> > >
> > > Probably a non-Microsoft ftp client would lose part of the word doc.
> >
> > So you're saying SCP, CVS, Subversion, Bitkeeper, Apache and rsyncd
> > will _all_ lose part of a Word document when they handle it on a
> > Window box?
> >
> > Ouch!
>
> Yep. It's the meta data that Word stores in streams that will get lost.
>
>
>
> Jeremy.
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