On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 06:10:21PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:31:14PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > And that makes them different from extended attributes, how? > > > > Both of these really are nothing but ad hocky syntactic sugar for > > directories, sometimes combined with in-filesystem support for small > > data items. > > There's a good discussion of the issues involved in my LCA 2006 > presentation.... which doesn't seem to be on the LCA 2006 site. Hrm. > I'll have to ask that this be fixed. In any case, here it is: > > http://thunk.org/tytso/forkdepot.odp Did you ever code up forkdepot ? Just wondering ? Just because I now agree with you that streams are a bad idea doesn't mean the pressure to support them in some way in Samba has gone away :-). Jeremy. - 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
