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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:28:03 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.
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On Apr 21 13:29, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Apr 20 16:59, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > the most part, all NTEA does is store some information (e.g., permissions,
> > > and, of late, owner) in a special file in the root directory.  The only
> >
> > Only on FAT.  NTFS stores them in a file stream (as HPFS?).
> 
> Sure, and we were talking about FAT...

I understood what you wrote as if you were sure that EA are always
implemented as just a file in the root dir.  It isn't.  However, EA
is something implemented in the file system driver.  The NT FAT
driver understands EA and writes that file, for the NTFS driver EA
are just a sort of stream and the FAT32 driver (Win2K+) doesn't
understand them at all.

Corinna

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