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SubjectRe: NTFS-like streams?
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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