Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267507AbUIAXkJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 19:40:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266263AbUIAXjz (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 19:39:55 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.192]:13670 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267594AbUIAXWr (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 19:22:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4699bb7b04090116227ad1e7c0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:22:41 +1200 From: Oliver Hunt Reply-To: Oliver Hunt To: Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , reiserfs-list@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20040901205140.GL4455@legion.cup.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200408261819.59328.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <1093789802.27932.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1093804864.8723.15.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20040829193851.GB21873@jeremy1> <20040901201945.GE31934@mail.shareable.org> <20040901202641.GJ4455@legion.cup.hp.com> <20040901203101.GG31934@mail.shareable.org> <20040901203543.GK4455@legion.cup.hp.com> <20040901204746.GI31934@mail.shareable.org> <20040901205140.GL4455@legion.cup.hp.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1991 Lines: 50 The loss of forks in the file is exxactly the problem you used to have when transferring native Mac files to a PC... This meant in order to transfer files to different filesystem you often needed to tar/zip/whatever them first. Bare in mind this would let us do the whole MacOS thing of putting an entire application(plus plugins, etc) inside one "file"... --Oliver On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:51:40 -0700, 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. > > > > Jeremy. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/