Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:28:03 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Emulating hard links on FAT et al. Message-ID: <20040422072803.GB1486@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <6 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 0 DOT 20040420163719 DOT 02fefca8 AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1> <20040421074208 DOT GA4092 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/