Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-08-26T22:04:36Z

On Thursday 26 August 2004 20:17, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > Because without kernel support there is no way someone can
> > publish a new metadata type and have it automatically supported
> > by all application data files (ie. most apps ignore it, and only
> > apps that are aware of it can see it).
>
> So your backup software ignores it, and after a restore you've
> lost your new metadata ?

I think there's no easy way to fix this, except fixing the backup software to
support xattrs's/streams/forks/whatever. Even on Windows, it has happened
this way with older apps that don't support named streams.