Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Aug 2000 09:17:00 +0100 (BST) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > 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?
The "main" stream overrides - i.e. renaming foo:splat to bar:splat means bar:splat gets the same permissions as bar. NTFS won't allow anything else, without lots of strangeness.
James.
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