From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
To: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
ebiggers@kernel.org,
samba-technical <samba-technical@lists.samba.org>
Subject: Re: Streams support in Linux
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 13:47:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180828204711.GH97108@jra3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH2r5mtqGVgs4W8scQ-PiiTMXMaVY4oxW+DWzszQMWjR6RhaHQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 03:43:45PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
>
> In theory I could construct a struct fd by setting up a struct file on the fly
> (see "alloc_empty_file" for example) and the few dozen fields in it,
> but it would be a lot easier to return them as xattrs with a reserved
> prefix (e.g. "streams")
> since most of these are small (some examples) and could have been
> stored in xattrs
> if the Apple or Windows developers had wanted to
>
> "streams.ZoneIdentifier" (for Internet Explorer download security info)
> "streams.favicon" (for Internet explorer icons)
> "streams.AFP_AfpInfo" and "streams.AFP_Resource" (for two common Mac streams)
> "streams.XPRESS" (for compression)
Hmmm. Yeah, I guess this works if you can ensure
the prefix is reserved.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-29 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-25 13:51 Streams support in Linux Matthew Wilcox
2018-08-25 14:47 ` Al Viro
2018-08-25 15:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-08-25 18:00 ` Al Viro
2018-08-25 20:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-08-25 22:36 ` Al Viro
2018-08-26 1:03 ` Steve French
2018-08-27 17:05 ` Jeremy Allison
2018-08-27 17:41 ` Jeremy Allison
2018-08-27 18:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-08-27 18:45 ` Al Viro
2018-08-27 19:06 ` Jeremy Allison
2018-08-28 0:45 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-08-28 1:07 ` Steve French
2018-08-28 18:12 ` Jeremy Allison
2018-08-28 18:32 ` Steve French
2018-08-28 18:40 ` Jeremy Allison
2018-08-28 19:43 ` Steve French
2018-08-28 19:47 ` Jeremy Allison
2018-08-28 20:43 ` Steve French
2018-08-28 20:47 ` Jeremy Allison [this message]
2018-08-28 20:51 ` Steve French
2018-08-28 21:19 ` Stefan Metzmacher
2018-08-28 21:22 ` Jeremy Allison
2018-08-28 21:23 ` Steve French
2018-08-29 5:13 ` Ralph Böhme
2018-08-29 13:46 ` Tom Talpey
2018-08-29 13:54 ` Aurélien Aptel
2018-08-29 15:02 ` Tom Talpey
2018-08-29 16:00 ` Jeremy Allison
2018-08-29 15:59 ` Jeremy Allison
2018-08-29 18:52 ` Andreas Dilger
2018-08-26 20:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-08-25 16:25 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-08-27 16:33 ` Jeremy Allison
2018-09-20 2:06 Shahbaz Youssefi
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