Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:04:50 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, James Sutherland wrote:
> >From NT's point of view, they are just similarly named files, joined at > the inode (i.e. common permissions, [acm]time etc). We can support this > under Linux as well, at least on NTFS, without any real silliness creeping > in - and the VFS needn't know anything about this (it will just see some > similar looking files). Renaming one component of such a file will break > this join; renaming the other components will reunite them. On ext2 etc., > they are just normal files.
Great. Now, tell me please, what should happen when two pieces with different permissions and owners join?
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