Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:52:18 -0700 | From | Jeremy Allison <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:48:41PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > This is why I favour storing all essential metadata (about the file's > content) inside the file's contents, the primary stream. > > We have another problem: what happens when users want to transfer data > from Windows (with secondary streams) and MacOS (with resource forks)?
I can tell you that - right now we (Samba) has to drop all but the primary stream, because the Linux filesystems don't have data stream support. Oh look, we're losing user data (that's a *bad* thing :-).
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