Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Aug 2000 23:41:39 +1000 | From | CaT <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
| |
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 10:31:43AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 11 Aug 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008120028320.11791-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>, > > Can't be done. > > > > "/bin/mv", yes. Makes complete sense to move a full file with all > > "subforks". It's actually very similar to a directory move. > > > > But /bin/cp cannot do the same, at least not without teaching it to do > > the same thing as for a recursive directory copy (which a regular UNIX > > cp wouldn't even try to do on a regular file). But the recursive > > directory copy approach should work. > > > > At least in theory. > > So what we want are directories, and not file streams? > Oh wait, we already have those... > > /me runs
You bad. :) You real bad. :)
Still, it's always pissed me off whenever I tried to get sound files (for eg) off a mac onto my amiga (back when my amiga actually worked *sigh*). I always wound up getting the bits of the file that weren't sound...
Annoying.
Had to run resedit on it. I believe you folks are talking about doing something similar/the same.
-- CaT (cat@zip.com.au)
'He had position, but I was determined to score.' -- Worf, DS9, Season 5: 'Let He Who Is Without Sin...'
- 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.tux.org/lkml/
| |