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SubjectRe: NTFS-like streams?
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> > If it has the same inode number lots of other stuff breaks so I fear it doesnt
>
> Ehh.. The "lots of stuff breaks" is, I assume, basically again just "tar".
> Nothing else really ever tends to care about inode numbers.

NFS, a whole pile of other tools like find, old style pwd. Constant inode
numbers are not a big issue (msdos showed that), duplicating them does
cause a confusion or two.

> But apparently that's the choice the HFS filesystem has made. Shades of
> Windows, in my opinion: "yeah, we know it is broken, but we preferred some
> hard-to-trigger filesystem corruption to breaking a legacy program that
> couldn't understand the new filesystem features".

I doubt the author realised it had races. Its not a well documented piece
of the kernel.



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