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On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 01:49:34PM -0700, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote: > In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008121047190.14835-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>, > Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote: > >On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > >> Rik van Riel wrote: > >> > >> > So what we want are directories, and not file streams? > >> > Oh wait, we already have those... > >> > >> Not really. Directories aren't the same thing, > >> and don't serve the same purpose. They're _similar_, > >> but not identical. > > > >So what is The Big Difference(tm) that make file streams > >so much better than directories and so much different? > > I'll talk really slowly. > > HFS has resource forks. They are not directories. Linux cannot handle > them well. > > I'm all for handling HFS resource forks. It's called "interoperability". > [...] Real "interoperability" for me would mean network EA aware filesystems. Since we are NFS [auto]mounting FrameMaker, StarOffice & Co from a server, EAs would be lost even if the server had an EA aware local filesystem. Maybe could it be a useful extension to the forecoming NfsV4 implementation... > > Linus > -- Thierry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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