On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 3:47 PM Jeremy Allison <jra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 03:43:45PM -0500, Steve French wrote: > > > > In theory I could construct a struct fd by setting up a struct file on the fly > > (see "alloc_empty_file" for example) and the few dozen fields in it, > > but it would be a lot easier to return them as xattrs with a reserved > > prefix (e.g. "streams") > > since most of these are small (some examples) and could have been > > stored in xattrs > > if the Apple or Windows developers had wanted to > > > > "streams.ZoneIdentifier" (for Internet Explorer download security info) > > "streams.favicon" (for Internet explorer icons) > > "streams.AFP_AfpInfo" and "streams.AFP_Resource" (for two common Mac streams) > > "streams.XPRESS" (for compression) > > Hmmm. Yeah, I guess this works if you can ensure > the prefix is reserved. And it gives Ronnie another chance to show off the performance benefits of his good work on compounding (open/read/close in this case) -- Thanks, Steve
