Hi
have you tried using symlinks / hardlinks
or a fifo might be able todo what you want or mayby
you could use tee ? like
echo hello |tee x > y
i dont fully understand what you mean by stream
but a fifo would be like a stream put data in 1 end
and it comes out the other
cya
James
In local.linux-kernel-list, you wrote:
>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
>
>
>
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