Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[David Lang]

what happens when you ue one of the many software packages around that 
lets windows access a NFS server. when you copy the file to a NFS accessed 
drive does it loose part of the data?

David Lang

 On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Jamie Lokier 
wrote:

> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 21:31:01 +0100
> From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Jeremy Allison <jra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>,
>     Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>     Denis Vlasenko <vda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>     Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>, Christer Weinigel <christer@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
>     Spam <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>,
>     wichert@xxxxxxxxx, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>, reiser@xxxxxxxxxxx,
>     hch@xxxxxx, Linux Filesystem Development <linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, flx@xxxxxxxxxxx,
>     reiserfs-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
>
> Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > Streams in a Word file?
> >
> > Yep.
> >
> > > Are you saying that when I copy a .doc file onto my Linux box and off,
> > > I lose part of a Word document?
> >
> > Right now no, because when Samba refuses the stream open, Word falls
> > back into a "tar"-like mode where it linearises the streams into the
> > data (it's a legacy mode for storing data on a FAT drive, not an NTFS
> > drive). However, the problem is that no currently supported Microsoft
> > OS doesn't have streams-capable NTFS support.
>
> I meant when I copy not using Samba.  For example, I copy the .doc
> file in Windows NT to an FTP server.
>
> Does the FTP operation magically linearise the .doc streams on demand?
>
> Or does FTP lose part of the Word document?
>
> -- Jamie
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