From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:44:22 +0200
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Am Dienstag, 7. September 2004 14:30 schrieb Herbert Poetzl:
> > 1. Do we want support for named streams?
> > 
> > ? ?I belive the answer is yes, since both NTFS and HFS (that's the
> > ? ?MacOS filesystem, isn't it?) supports streams we want Linux to
> > ? ?support this if possible.
> 
> well, yes HFS has this, is it advantageous, no
> it's kind of heritage ...

HFS doesn't support _named_ streams. There are just two forks
per file.

	Regards
		Oliver
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