Why is this beginning to remind me of EA's under OS/2?
If I recall correctly (And it's been one heck of a long time) you could
bind generic, unspecified metadata to a file, such as the image thumbnail,
and it would be stored in the EA area.
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, James Sutherland wrote:
> 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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