From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269013AbUHZOoW (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:44:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269014AbUHZOoV (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:44:21 -0400 Received: from 153.Red-213-4-13.pooles.rima-tde.net ([213.4.13.153]:30212 "EHLO kerberos.felipe-alfaro.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269018AbUHZOmg (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:42:36 -0400 From: Felipe Alfaro Solana To: Denis Vlasenko Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:42:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: Christer Weinigel , Spam , Andrew Morton , wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <200408261700.43253.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> In-Reply-To: <200408261700.43253.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408261642.21643.lkml@felipe-alfaro.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 26 August 2004 16:00, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > I think Hans is not planning turning old "file is a stream of bytes" > into eight-stream octopus. One stream will remain as a 'main' one, > which contains actual data. Others will keep metadata, etc... > > Note that even today's files aren't simple "streams of bytes" > because they also have names,mode bits etc. This is just exactly how NTFS does work: there's an unnamed stream (which is the one that the majority of userspace programs do manipulate) which contains the user data (the pixels from a PMG image, or text from a text file, etc.), and there are named streams which not all kind of applications do know how to handle.