From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269669AbUHZU6y (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:58:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269658AbUHZU45 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:56:57 -0400 Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:37560 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269644AbUHZUwU (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:52:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:52:18 -0700 From: Jeremy Allison To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Rik van Riel , Linus Torvalds , Diego Calleja , christophe@saout.de, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, christer@weinigel.se, spam@tnonline.net, akpm@osdl.org, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-ID: <20040826205218.GE1570@legion.cup.hp.com> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison References: <20040826204841.GC5733@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040826204841.GC5733@mail.shareable.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:48:41PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > This is why I favour storing all essential metadata (about the file's > content) inside the file's contents, the primary stream. > > We have another problem: what happens when users want to transfer data > from Windows (with secondary streams) and MacOS (with resource forks)? I can tell you that - right now we (Samba) has to drop all but the primary stream, because the Linux filesystems don't have data stream support. Oh look, we're losing user data (that's a *bad* thing :-). Jeremy.