Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Thursday 26 August 2004 20:17, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > Because without kernel support there is no way someone can
> > publish a new metadata type and have it automatically supported
> > by all application data files (ie. most apps ignore it, and only
> > apps that are aware of it can see it).
>
> So your backup software ignores it, and after a restore you've
> lost your new metadata ?

I think there's no easy way to fix this, except fixing the backup software to 
support xattrs's/streams/forks/whatever. Even on Windows, it has happened 
this way with older apps that don't support named streams.
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