Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? | Date | Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:43:49 +0200 (MEST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Michael Rothwell wrote: > If the streams access method we decide on is a _superset_ > of posix Fs requirements, what's the problem? Posix apps > still get what they expect. So extending the namespace > to provide streams support seems like a reasonable idea.
So, if the result is that
myfile:resource
is the resource fork for
myfile
where that last one is the same as
myfile:data
then, I'm perfectly happy.
However, when
myfile
starts to refer both to a file and a directory, that's when I get upset.
Because applications that are used to working on an HFS partition WILL NOT be able to access
myfile and myfile/resource
when someone wants to test-drive this application on an ext2fs. E.g. not knowing yet wether to convert a filesystem to HFS for running this fanyc apple-emulator.
Roger.
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