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DateMon, 14 Aug 2000 11:19:21 +0200
From tdanis@canal-pl ...
SubjectRe: NTFS-like streams?
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

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