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    SubjectRe: NTFS-like streams?


    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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