Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270025AbUIDBKi (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 21:10:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270024AbUIDBKi (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 21:10:38 -0400 Received: from adsl-216-102-214-42.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([216.102.214.42]:30470 "EHLO cynthia.pants.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270008AbUIDBKW (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 21:10:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 18:10:13 -0700 From: Brad Boyer To: Alan Cox Cc: Jeremy Allison , Jamie Lokier , Trond Myklebust , Denis Vlasenko , Rik van Riel , Christer Weinigel , Spam , Andrew Morton , wichert@wiggy.net, Linus Torvalds , reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, Linux Filesystem Development , Linux Kernel Mailing List , flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-ID: <20040904011012.GA27405@pants.nu> 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> <1094118524.4842.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1094118524.4842.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1107 Lines: 22 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 - 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/