On 2021-08-12, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > >> Windows never had filesystems that supported metadata like OS/2 and >> MacOS did. The registry was an ugly hack that attempted (very poorly) >> to make up for that lack of metadata. >> > FYI, NTFS does support Alternate Data Streams.
That is interesting -- and it was apparently intended to provide some sort of compatibility with MacOS data fork and resource fork. According to one article I found, nobody ever seems to have put that NTFS feature to use for anything other than hiding malware. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
