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There is a difference between alternate data streams and extended attributes. Basically, the former is data, the latter is metadata. NTFS and ZFS implement al
by trasz 5y ago
There is a difference between alternate data streams and extended attributes. Basically, the former is data, the latter is metadata. NTFS and ZFS implement alternate data streams, but in eg FreeBSD those are accessed like extended attributes.
- p_l 5y agoNTFS doesn't really have a difference internally - they are all attributes of the FILE object (everything in NTFS is a FILE or its attribute, including filesystem metadata). Arguably ZFS ZPL has "blessed" data element (I dare you to implement ZFS while replacing DMU/SPA with Ceph or S3 XD - yes it's doable)