On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 08:29:31AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > If you want additional seekable data streams, then come up with a > filesystem namespace method of addressing these alternate data > streams as *separate files containing data*. That's all an ADS is - > a namespace hack to address multiple data files through a single > file name. That's the problem that needs solving and it has nothing > to do with xattrs. There was some thread about this years ago. Looking... "silent semantic changes with reiser4" or "possible design issues for hybrids" look like the relevant threads. One good starting point might be: http://mid.gmane.org/20040826212853.GA21964@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Don't know how out of date that might be now. --b. -- 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
