Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:19:56 +0100 | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
| |
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:52:18PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: > 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 :-).
Maybe you should learn from netatalk.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |