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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:47:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.
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On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> 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

I see.  Without looking at the code [WLATC (TM)] -- which seems to be
happening rather often lately -- I assumed that the file in the root dir
to store the EA was actually part of the Cygwin implementation, rather
than the underlying API.  Thanks for the clarification.
	Igor
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