On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs writes:
>>
>> Can we call them "maps" or "metadata maps"? "forks" sounds weird.
>
>  I'm not wedded to "forks", that's just the name that was used in the
>  only previous example I've seen.  Classic Mac had a "resource fork"
>  and a "data fork" within each file.

Microsoft / NTFS calls them Data Streams:
http://www.wikistc.org/wiki/Alternate_data_streams

Jochem

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