Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:12:53 -0400 (EDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> I think Hans is not planning turning old "file is a stream of bytes" > into eight-stream octopus. One stream will remain as a 'main' one, > which contains actual data. Others will keep metadata, etc...
This is exactly what the Samba people want, though.
Office suites can store a document with embedded images and spread sheets "easily" by putting the text, the images and spread sheets all in different file streams.
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