At 05:44 15/08/2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Mo McKinlay wrote:
> > # I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that any solution which does *not*
> > # allow an opendir() on it is just terminally broken.
> >
> > No no no!
> >
> > Directories can have streams as well as files.
>
>So how the fuck does one access the streams on NTFS root? On NT, that is.
That's conceptually self-evident once you are aware of the NTFS concepts I
have outlined in my post to lkml entitled: NTFS primer - was: Re: NTFS-like
streams? (Al, I cc-ed that particular post to you).
From there it follows that you do the following:
C:\> echo strange_data_here > \:my_stream_name
You can then do
C:\> dir \
and you will see that your data / streamname have disappeared somewhere but
you get the data back when you do:
C:\> cat \:my_stream_name
That's all. (-:
>And how, BTW, are hardlinks implemented if the description of MFT entry
>given upthread was correct (it included "name" field)?
Unfortunately it was incorrect (if only by being incomplete and without
explanations). - Hardlinks are implemented as I described in above
mentioned post.
Anton
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