Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Wed, 01 Sep 2004 17:35:03 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 16:51, Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:47:46PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Jeremy Allison wrote: > > > > I meant when I copy not using Samba. For example, I copy the .doc > > > > file in Windows NT to an FTP server. > > > > > > > > Does the FTP operation magically linearise the .doc streams on demand? > > > > Or does FTP lose part of the Word document? > > > > > > Good question. It depends if the Microsoft ftp client is streams-aware, > > > and understands the Microsoft OLE structured storage format and will do > > > the linearisation on demand or not. I must confess I haven't tested this, > > > as I don't ever run Windows other than on vmware sessions for Samba testing > > > these days :-). > > > > > > Probably a non-Microsoft ftp client would lose part of the word doc. > > > > So you're saying SCP, CVS, Subversion, Bitkeeper, Apache and rsyncd > > will _all_ lose part of a Word document when they handle it on a > > Window box? > > > > Ouch! > > Yep. It's the meta data that Word stores in streams that will get lost. >
This is shocking. When was this behavior introduced?
Lee
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