On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> Al,
>
> One argument for this is the fact that lots of NT posix apps are going
> to start to show up on Linux, and lots of folks who code on NT (me being
> one of them) like to use this attribute scheme since it makes it easy
> for folks to attach notes, info, etc. to files for data-mining apps and
> the like. If we adopted the MS naming convention for this, it would
> make porting a lot of these apps to Linux easier.
Nonportable to normal filesystems. Nonportable to any other UNIX. Will
be painful over NFS.
There is a sane and completely portable scheme - use directories. It's
less brittle and will work with the standard tool on normal filesystems.
Why not use it?
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