[clug] EXT4 Reliability [SEC=PERSONAL]

Mike Carden mike.carden at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 00:38:14 MDT 2009


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Carlo Hamalainen
<carlo.hamalainen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm just curious about what you mean by Data and Resource forks?

They were a feature of one of Apple's old file systems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork

I think Alex was suggesting that if you were a pre-OSX Apple user, you
might never imagine that the eminently sensible practice of having a
dedicated metadata spot in your file system might ever go away.

-- 
MC


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