Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: [Duplicity-talk] Tar replacement - format proposal

[Kevin Spicer]

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 23:40, Will Dyson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 16:35, Will Dyson wrote:
> 
> > I've written a filesystem driver for the Linux kernel (befs), although I
> 
> Thinking about befs made me realize there is one important thing missing
> from the proposal: Extended attributes.
> 
> Most extended attributes will be small and textual, and can be archived
> in the file index entry without trouble. However, nothing in the
> extended attribute interface mandates that attributes be small or
> textual. Some filesystems (such as befs, ntfs, and probably the upcoming
> reiser4 filesystem) efficiently support extended attributes that are
> arbitrarily large.
> 
> In fact, under BeOS, it is common to attach an image file's thumbnail as
> an extended attribute.

Hmmm, that sounds similar to the principle of multiple streams for a
single file in NTFS 




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