Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Aug 2000 08:55:20 -0400 | From | Michael Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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Horst von Brand wrote:
> > There's plenty of other uses for them besides icons, anyway :> > > Such as? The _only_ use discussed all over tha place each time this comes > up (nad it does come up each two years or so) is icons.
I wish people would shut up about the icons.
[prepares mail server for flameage]
"Forks" or "Streams" or whatever already exist in a number of commercially prevalent filesystems. It would be nice to have Linux work with them well; ergo, it would be nice to have Linux support some standard method of exporting streams in some way to make them user-accessible without breaking existing unix FS semantics, and without making streams in FSes that support them hard/silly/etc to use.
Linus' suggestion of a namespace augmentation -- allowing "/" after a filename -- fits the bill.
Once we have a way to access streams in NTFS, HFS, HPFS, etc., there still will not be any streams/EAs in Ext2, Ext3, or ReiserFS (current favorites for "linux default FS" depending on who you ask).
Maybe in Linux 8.2, the default filesystem will support streams. But until then, application designers will not use them, because they :
(1) probably won't be there (2) won't be portable to other Unix OSes
So, to echo Linus, the issue is one of implementation, not icons, tarfs, etc.
-M
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