Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Sep 2004 18:10:13 -0700 | From | Brad Boyer <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:48:46AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > What I don't understand is the tie between Linux having such streams and > Windows doing it for Samba to work. Netatalk has always handle this for > Macintosh and portably. Presumably any Samba support would need to > handle OS's without wacky files for portability too ?
I'm not 100% sure on the samba side, but I think there is a pretty significant difference. On the Mac, the problem of copying forks and metadata onto non-Mac systems was recognized early on. There are several standard formats for serialized versions of this data. If you take the files that netatalk writes and copy them directly to a Mac separately, there are tools that can convert them back to the original format with all the data intact. I've never seen such a thing for NTFS named streams.
Brad Boyer flar@allandria.com
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