<quote who="Andrew Bennetts"> > I believe they're somewhat like "resource forks" or "extended attributes" > in other filesystems.
[ EAs are metadata tags, rather than streams. Pretty much every popular Linux filesystem supports EAs now, using them for ACLs and security tags. There is no standard support for streams though, which has led to all the fun discussion about reiser4's crack-addled stream stuff. ;-) ] - Jeff -- What's all that about? http://www.no-name-yet.com/ "And if you think this fucking little tub of gold popcorn is going to remotely make up for everything we've suffered, you're sadly fucking mistaken!" - Gollum -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
