Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:51:25 +0100 (BST) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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On 14 Aug 2000, Christer Weinigel wrote:
> > That's also horrible. > > It might be horrible, but how else are you going to solve it? As > Linus has said, NTFS is not POSIX compatible anyway, but it has to be > supported somehow.
Solve it the way I have already explained. NT is POSIX compliant, and uses this implementation...
> > BTW: What do you do if there's a real directory called ".fork"? Or a > > file? > > Tough luck, on NTFS file systems the name ".fork" is reserved.
Says who? It's not your file system. You just want the drivers to break on perfectly legal NTFS partitions?
> > You also still have the original problem of naming the forks! > > > > If I create "foo" and "bar", both with a fork called "splat", what tree do > > I get? This one: > > > > foo > > bar > > .fork/foo:splat > > .fork/bar:splat > > Almost, with / instead of : as the separator.
Oh dear. We're back to the stupid pseudo-magic-directory-thing shit again.
(snip vomit)
> > > That would work on ext2, NFS or any POSIX like filesystem. > > > > It might possibly work, but it would leave a mess on the keyboard. Don't > > do it. > > It's how AppleShare has been done with Netatalk for a long time.
Making mistakes is normal. Repeating them should be avoided.
James.
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