Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? | Date | Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:40:49 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Trust me, the HFS guys have succeded in getting the filesystem > tar-able and untarable on their filesystem. You really can copy a > filesystem around that way.
That isnt all
> You can also untar it onto ext2fs, tar it again, and untar it on HFS > and get a similar filestructure back as you started out with. Of > course, you can break things while they are on ext2. But you can > similarly break things while they are on HFS.
And critically - you can sanely serve files using the same code without knowing if they are on ext2 and faked or HFS and real resource forks. Thats a property a new setup should keep
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