Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:31:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Vickery <vickery@ntcv.cs.qc.edu> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: NTFS-like streams? I'm interested in implementing a system that associates meta-data with inodes, and would like to know if it has already been done or is in the works. NTFS allows you to create multiple "streams" within a file. "echo hello > x:y" creates a zero-byte file named x with a "stream" named y containing hello. If you copy, move, rename, or delete x then y goes with it. Canonical example is x.bmp contains an image and x.bmp:thumbnail contains a thumbnail of the image. So far as I can tell, the NTFS for Linux project is not under active development, and ext3, reiserfs, jfs, etc. do not deal with this issue. Am I missing anything? tia Chris Vickery - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/