[plug] [OT] Security problems with NTFS

[Craig Ringer]

> I saw a mate of mine playing around with this "feature" several months
> ago. It's interesting but I couldn't for the life of me think of a
> practical application.

It's handy. One application for it is the storage of Macintosh resource 
fork information in files. That way the resource fork moves with the 
data fork, is deleted with the data fork, etc. Under most *nix AppleTalk 
implementations the files must be MacBinary encoded (essentially 
concatinating the res and data forks AFAIK) or the resource fork is 
stored in another file. Neither of these is desireable - though the NTFS 
approach also has it's drawbacks, especially when it comes to non-mac 
network access (res fork info lost) and backup.

Craig Ringer

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