Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Aug 2000 20:06:20 GMT | From | James Stevenson <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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Hi
have you tried using symlinks / hardlinks or a fifo might be able todo what you want or mayby you could use tee ? like
echo hello |tee x > y
i dont fully understand what you mean by stream but a fifo would be like a stream put data in 1 end and it comes out the other
cya James
In local.linux-kernel-list, you wrote: >I'm interested in implementing a system that associates >meta-data with inodes, and would like to know if it has >already been done or is in the works. NTFS allows you to >create multiple "streams" within a file. "echo hello > x:y" >creates a zero-byte file named x with a "stream" named y >containing hello. If you copy, move, rename, or delete x >then y goes with it. Canonical example is x.bmp contains an >image and x.bmp:thumbnail contains a thumbnail of the >image. So far as I can tell, the NTFS for Linux project is >not under active development, and ext3, reiserfs, jfs, etc. >do not deal with this issue. Am I missing anything? > >tia >Chris Vickery > > > >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >------------------------------ >
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