Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:26:41 -0700 | | From | Jeremy Allison <> | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:19:45PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Jeremy Allison wrote: > > (most of the streams in a Word file for instance are quite small) > > Streams in a Word file?
Yep.
> Are you saying that when I copy a .doc file onto my Linux box and off, > I lose part of a Word document?
Right now no, because when Samba refuses the stream open, Word falls back into a "tar"-like mode where it linearises the streams into the data (it's a legacy mode for storing data on a FAT drive, not an NTFS drive). However, the problem is that no currently supported Microsoft OS doesn't have streams-capable NTFS support.
This means that in a future MS-Office revision, this backwards support may be broken by accident or by design (less likely, Microsoft really don't do that kind of thing without very high level requests :-) and no testers at Microsoft will notice (because they only test against MS servers).
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