Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:44:57 -0500 | From | Michael Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix |
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Mo McKinlay wrote:
> (Take symbolic linking, for example - if you ln -s on VFAT, you get > 'operation not permitted' - named stream/EA operations on a filesystem > that doesn't support them should return the same, IMHO).
And they would, if the chosen namespace was not supported.
> Also, I don't like the idea of bypassing POSIX in this manner (using ':' > as a delimeter), even if the underlying filesystem *may* not support it. > > What's to say that ext4 (or whatever) won't support named streams, but > still allow ':'? Your solution as it stands would break in that situation > (assuming I've not missed something :)
The filesystem, when registering that it supports the "named streams" namespace, could specify its preferred delimiter to the VFS as well. Ext4 could use /directory/file/stream, and NTFS could use /directory/file:stream.
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