From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: RE: Fixes to last snapshot
23 Mar 1998 12:00:10 -0800
Message-ID: <199803231334.IAA00655.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@hardy.bbc.com>
To: noer AT cygnus DOT com, sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru
Cc: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com"@bbc.com, <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

>From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru>
>Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:49:03 +0300
>
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>I'm starting to think that perhaps use of the extended attributes
>>>should be off by default.  The files that get created are huge and
>>>there isn't any way that I know of to trim them down to a minimum
>>>size.  :-(
>>
>>Is there a way to find the size of these files on a non-FAT partition?
>
>Zero :-) EAs are stored on NTFS as alternate data streams.  Small data
>streams (less than ~100 bytes) are stored in directory record :-) Try
>the following - create a lot of files without EAs on NTFS, check the
>free space, chmod this files (they will have EAs now) and compare free
>space.  The same for small files itself - the contents of cygwin's
>symlinks stored in a directory entry and does not occupies any clusters
>:-)

Cool.  There was some talk about doing something similar for EXT2 partitions
in linux.  As usual, it seems that NT is leading the pack.  :-)