On 31/01/2008, krischik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> On 31 Jan., 19:57, Alexei Alexandrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> > 2 notes here:
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> > 1. I think NTFS streams is useless feature.
>
> NTFS Streams can be used for the very same stuff resource streams on
> MacOS or extended attributes on OS/2 / Linux are used. And in fact
But this is just about the only things that NTFS streams are ever used for.
I spent ten years working in the Windows division at Microsoft, and I hardly
ever saw streams being used.
> I've never seen any
> > practical example of the usefulness of this.
>
> You might want to get yourself the demo version of 4NT (http://
> www.jpsoft.com/) and then use "DIR /:" a bit - you might be surprised
> how many streams are already used on your system. Most notably:
>
> 12.12.2007 14:03 1'670 _H_A_________ .vimrc
> 0
> {4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
>
Every NTFS file is implemented as one or more streams, and the default
stream is called $DATA. It's a bit like finding a directory named . in every
directory.
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/George V. Reilly
http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog
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