Messages in this thread | | | Date | 14 Aug 2000 18:47:18 -0000 | From | Christer Weinigel <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us wrote:
> What's the point in making apps written before streams existed work > with streams unmodified?
Mostly because there exists a lot of backup tools that are hard to replace. If the rest of the company uses a backup server which supports POSIX file systems you won't be very popular if you insist on a special tool to back up your partitions, and lots of backup clients aren't open source and thus can't be fixed.
> > The "files as directories" way is a big deviation from how things work > > today, suddenly one can do opendir/readdir on a file > > Files with streams are not directories. I would not expect > readdir() to work on them. There would have to be a different > enumerator function.
Why change everything? Inventing a new API means that _all_ tools have to be rewritten to work with alternate streams.
/Christer
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