Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:49:06 -0400 (EDT) | From | Michael Nelson <> | Subject | Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux |
| |
I just asked someone at MS and they confirmed that NSS does indeed use NTFS streams (NSS is implemented as a file system filter). The filter AFAIK takes care of all of the conversion issues -- so that if you open it as a regular file, it looks like a regular file. If you use the IStorage/IStream interfaces via StgCreateDocFile, it looks like a SS file.
-mike
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > I'm quite sure you are incorrect. MS Office 97 does use a "Structured > Storage" format; however, I know of no plans to try to use NT 5.0's > multiple stream support in NTFS to store MS Office's Structured Storage. > > Consider that a user may want to copy a Word file or an Excel file > around from an NTFS 5.0 filesystem to a NTFS 4.0 or FAT filesystem > (which don't support multiple data streams). Or consider what happens > when you want to put the Word file or Excel file on the web. > > If users are forced to run a conversion program before they can take a > Word file saved on an NTFS 5.0 filesystem and copy it to a floppy disk > with FAT filesystem, they will *not* be happy. > > As far as I know, there is only one planned use of NTFS 5.0's multiple > stream feature, and that is for the Appleshare fileserver running on an > NT box. It's not at all clear Microsoft will use it for anything else, > given the inherent problems with multiple stream files. (Remember, they > need to interoperate with Windows 98 systems which will *not* have > multiple stream files.)
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html
| |