On Dec 5, 2007 10:08 AM, Graham Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the meantime: AFAIR it was not immediately desirable to use ADS in > an NTFS-3G context. Still, it's food for thought.
I wasn't part of the conversation, but I may know why it wasn't considered desirable: AIUI, Windows (specifically, the Explorer and derivative open/save dialogs, etc.) has never supported NTFS's ADS feature well. I know there's *some* support, such as a "notice this will delete additional streams as well" kind of dialog when you try to delete a file, but I'm quite sure there are big limitations to it. So, while Microsoft's NTFS driver may fully support reading and writing additional streams, this is of little use when as I assume the main app to interact with such a file system (Explorer) doesn't preserve that information fully and properly. With .DS_Store data, that may not be such a big deal, of course. -- Sören Kuklau --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "macfuse-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
