Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 04 Jul 1999 14:52:47 -0700 (PDT) | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | RE: (reiserfs) Re: I discussed reading directories as files with |
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On 22-Jun-99 tytso@mit.edu wrote: > > Before we go running into a deep technical discussion about how to > design different streams inside a file, we should first stop ask > ourselves how they will be *used*. > > Something that folks should keep in mind is that as far as I have been > able to determine, Microsoft isn't actually planning on using streams > for anything.
Indeed. I get the impression that they added it to NTFS from the start because it was the fashion of the time, and they didn't want to have a bullet-point missing compared to OS/2 (Appletalk would have been secondary, I expect). I suspect they're trying hard to avoid using streams altogether. Since NT5 is using the Vertias filesystem, it may no longer have native support for streams either.
The only really strongly useful implementation of the idea is in BeOS, where you can index the attributes and do database-like searches on the filesystem for files with particular attributes. This is actually surprisingly useful, but considerably more complex than simply implementing multi-stream files.
J
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