Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:52:29 -0600 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > Kernel part really depends on such mapping, so IMO thinking about > that part is a waste of time until the userland issues are really > well-understood.
Al,
After rethinking, I am of the opinion that this should be implemented via a special file util that calls the ioctl() interface for a specific file and a published IOCTL #define for user space programs. The underlying FS's could then map the attribute info on a case by case basis by file. This does sound like something that's architecturally unnatural to Linux, with a ton of crap to deal with in userspace to provide like semantics to Windows 2000. a simple ioctl() based util for folks who want to create and manage NTFS style attributes on Linux systems would get the job done without breaking Linux, and allow folks to use this functionality. They would have to change their code to read and write the attributes, which is the only disadvantage.
:-)
Jeff
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