RE: EFS like mac resource fork?

["Poletti, Don" <don poletti comverse-in com>]

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> * Poletti, Don (don.poletti@comverse-in.com) wrote:
> > Maybe this is off base but isn't this very similar to the resource
> > fork of mac files?
> 
> Not really. mac resource forks are for metadata, whereas EFS is a
> filesystem in a file, 

I fail to see the distintion. Metadata? bytes are bytes. A Mac program
can add/edit/remove data from the resource fork of a file I'm not sure
what happens to the size though. This data could be text or binaries.

> for structured storage inside one file.

Resources on the mac are exactly structure storage in a file

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