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SubjectRe: NTFS-like streams?
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:09:22AM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> This may not be "generic" enough for abitrarily named forks. Think of
> something that IS. It's not all that hard:
>
> ~/myfile (data/default fork)
> ~/.streams/myfile/resource (resource fork)
> ~/.streams/myfile/Icon (icon fork)
> ~/.streams/myfile/default (hardlink to ~/myfile )
>
> Advantages:
>
> - Tar-copyable.

Tar-able, perhaps, but untar-able? onto the same type of filesystem?
What if tar attempts to extract .streams/myfile/Icon before myfile?

Not to mention that if you tar up a directory and send it to a
friend who un-tars it onto ext2, he's going to get a mess (and
probably shout at you to stop sending such garbage!).

It's really not feasible to make streams visible to traditional
utilities.

Andrew

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