Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 21 Aug 2000 01:04:02 +0100 (BST) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: abstract file (support multi-part) |
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > James Sutherland wrote: > > > It can be done, and in HFS's case already is. No API change needed. > > "Ugly hack in place; stick head in sand."
Yes, HFS is an ugly hack. I don't think Linux really makes it any uglier...
NTFS's streams are also an ugly hack. However, we should allow the ugly hack to work as well as possible without major upheaval: that entails supporting the file:stream convention. This also has the advantage it works on "native" filesystems without any extra work - a welcome bonus. Neither is true of any of the other approaches mentioned so far, IIRC.
Incidentally, both NTFS and HPFS support "OS/2 Extended Attributes". I would be inclined to support an extra pair of API calls to support access to these - get_os2ea() and set_os2ea(), perhaps?
James.
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