On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:52:18PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: > 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 :-).
Maybe you should learn from netatalk.
