On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:16:30AM -0700, alan wrote: > > I just wish that people would learn from the mistakes of others. The > MacOS is a prime example of why you do not want to use a forked > filesystem, yet some people still seem to think it is a good idea. > (Forked filesystems tend to be fragile and do not play well with > non-forked filesystems.) Jeremy Alison used to be the one who was always pestering me to add Streams support into ext4, but recently he's admitted that I was right that it was a Very Bad Idea. As I mentioned in my Linux.conf.au presentation a year and a half ago, the main use of Streams in Windows to date has been for system crackers to hide trojan horse code and rootkits so that system administrators couldn't find them. :-) - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
