Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

From: Michael Rothwell (rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 10:20:48 EST


"James H. Cloos Jr." wrote:
>
> Michael> Please read and comment! :)
>
> There should be some discussion on what to do about filenames which
> contain colons in such a setup. Moving a file w/ a colon from a fs
> which does not support named streams to one which does should DTRT;
> exactly what TRT is should be discussed.

It seems that if you move a file with a colon -- "file:colon" -- in the
name from Ext2 to "StreamFS," you would end up with a file named "file"
with a stream named "colon". When copying back, you would get
"file:colon" back.
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