On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> The way NTFS does this trick is to create special attributes and chain
> them from the MFT for a given file entry. Linux has nothing like it at
> present in it's standard file systems, and the linux NTFS driver is only
> a bare skeleton of NTFS, it does not implemen all the NTFS
> capabilities. Under the covers of NTFS, these attributes are actually
> LCN (logical cluster number) file chains with some fancy headers and a
> name.
Data attributes, with a name; what we read as "the file" will be the
anonymous attribute, IIRC?
It shouldn't be too hard to add a simple check for which attribute is
being requested, I presume - AIUI, the NTFS driver is passed the filename,
then goes and looks it up in the MFT, so implementing this should just be
a matter of splitting the "filename" into the MFT entry's name and the
stream name, then accessing the appropriate attribute rather than always
using the anonymous one?
James.
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