Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 11 Aug 2000 23:07:48 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Urban Widmark <> | | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, John Franklin wrote:
> The point of the NTFS-like streams is to allow programs to record > metadata on files they may or may not know the format of, and where > the formats may or may not support metadata. For example, if KDE > wanted to keep icon and icon positional data for any given file, > it can keep it in something like .kde/<filename> or it can > write it to a stream outside the bounds of the file itself, yet > still bound to the file. With streams, the file can be copied/moved > and the streams automatically go with it.
*shrug*
I'm sure it is very useful to some people, at the very least for accessing this hidden info on files from other systems. That is why I asked the question below.
(I guess since I use window managers that don't put icons or positions on files I still fail to see the win :)
> > If you look at such a file exported with SMB what does the client see? > > Can you do "echo hello > //server/share/x:y" ? > > Not yet. I'm sure the SAMBA team will eventually put it in, tho.
I wasn't talking about samba, I meant a server on something that does NTFS, like NT4/5 (eh, win2k). If it does then that means that smbfs should probably support this. Just like I think the Linux NTFS driver should.
Btw, what happens in NT when you copy such a file from NTFS to say FAT? (I would check all this myself but I don't have a working NT box around)
/Urban
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