Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

[Mo McKinlay]

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Today, Michael Rothwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

  > The filesystem, when registering that it supports the "named streams"
  > namespace, could specify its preferred delimiter to the VFS as well.
  > Ext4 could use /directory/file/stream, and NTFS could use
  > /directory/file:stream.

Erk - nice from a programming point of view, horrible from a consistency
one. The nice thing about VFS is that it provides a consistent abstract
interface - I'd place a small amount of money on the fact that Al Viro
would probably flame you to high heaven for that last suggestion if he was
paying much attention to this thread :-)

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Mo McKinlay
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