On Thursday 26 August 2004 22:10, Rik van Riel wrote: > Do we really want to have a file paradigm that's different > from the other OSes out there ? > > What happens when users want to transfer data from Linux > to another system ?
I think it depends on the transport being used: some transports could allow for metadata (i.e. a MIME-compatible transport) while some others don't. Of course, the remote side needs to also support metadata (i,e. using a MIME-compatible transport against a remote host that doesn't understand metadata is certainly impossible). For example, with FTP transports, I guess the only possible option is to transfer the unnamed/default stream. NFS should allow metadata, but this probably needs some kind of extensions to the NFS protocol.
