Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Aug 2000 23:29:48 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Just remember, the real advantage NTFS in Windows 2000 garners from > these things is you can have an attribute with the same name attached to > each file. i.e. each file could have and ARCHIVE_DATA attribute > accessed as > > filename:ARCHIVE_DATA so a program can findnext all the files in a > directory and look for a specific piece of data it may have previously > associated with a file, so the naming system needs to be able to handle > instances of the same name across many files.
Sigh... And then somebody sets "fascist" (read: reasonable) permissions and that program breaks. Right?
Come on, guys, it's a feature from the Lisp Machines land. Single-user environment. Yep, having P-list stored with the object is handy, but it has _nothing_ to the things usually considered as filesystems. And it certainly doesn't work with multi-user systems. Linux is not Genera.
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