Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:29:12 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > Al, > > One argument for this is the fact that lots of NT posix apps are going > to start to show up on Linux, and lots of folks who code on NT (me being > one of them) like to use this attribute scheme since it makes it easy > for folks to attach notes, info, etc. to files for data-mining apps and > the like. If we adopted the MS naming convention for this, it would > make porting a lot of these apps to Linux easier.
Nonportable to normal filesystems. Nonportable to any other UNIX. Will be painful over NFS.
There is a sane and completely portable scheme - use directories. It's less brittle and will work with the standard tool on normal filesystems. Why not use it?
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