Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Sep 2004 21:47:46 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Jeremy Allison wrote: > > I meant when I copy not using Samba. For example, I copy the .doc > > file in Windows NT to an FTP server. > > > > Does the FTP operation magically linearise the .doc streams on demand? > > Or does FTP lose part of the Word document? > > Good question. It depends if the Microsoft ftp client is streams-aware, > and understands the Microsoft OLE structured storage format and will do > the linearisation on demand or not. I must confess I haven't tested this, > as I don't ever run Windows other than on vmware sessions for Samba testing > these days :-). > > Probably a non-Microsoft ftp client would lose part of the word doc.
So you're saying SCP, CVS, Subversion, Bitkeeper, Apache and rsyncd will _all_ lose part of a Word document when they handle it on a Window box?
Ouch!
The only sensible implementation I can imagine would be if the OS linearised multi-stream Word documents into the non-stream format automatically for all programs which don't know about streams.
Which is of course what I would like to implement for Linux...
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