RE: EFS like mac resource fork?

[bob thestuff net]

The resource fork is not in the file. Its part of the file system. Thats
why mac's have problems when transfering a file, and the resource fork
gets lost. Its totally different then haveing files within a file.

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Poletti, Don wrote:

> > 
> > * 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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