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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2004-04-14 19:54:12
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On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, - wrote: > i'm just wondering if this has any relevance since on > the site, there's mentioning that > MountMgrRemoteDatabase is not too well known about. I > did something that's not usually done, that is to > linkd my c:\documents and settings under a non-native > XP bootup using WinInternals. I am a debian linux > however and that's why I'd like to see how this can be > helpful:-> > > I accidently played around with linkd and > sysinternals.com's streams program, from the dosbox i > got on my c:\ > > C:\>streams * > > Streams v1.5 - Enumerate alternate NTFS data streams > Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Mark Russinovich > Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com > > C:\a: > :a:$DATA 5 > C:\Documents and Settings: > :$MountMgrRemoteDatabase:$DATA 124 > C:\temp: > :a:$DATA 5 > C:\tmp: > :a:$DATA 5 > > C:\> > > > i have picked up a slight understanding what this may > represent. can these :letter:$DATA 5 mean reparse > mountpoints with a length of 5? I don't know the tool you used but it looks to me like you created named streams called "a" in your directories/files c:\temp, c:\tmp and c:\a. > i read this article from online, > http://www.winntmag.com/Articles/ArticleID/8303/pg/1/1.html > > i'd like to know if the ntfs is not really dead seeing > that the last release was like 2 years ago and i was > just chatting in a chatroom about this patch tester > saying it isn't.. does anyone really care about > finishing up this driver or something? What do you mean ntfs is dead? Microsoft haven't killed it AFAIK. And we are still actively developing Linux-NTFS. And what do you mean the last release was 2 years ago? The last release of what? The last ntfsprogs release was only a few weeks ago... http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ > i also am wondering if this is any useful > echo "123" >foobar:strmname and more > <foobar:strmname, i accidently bumped into these cool > redirections after seeing the author of stream's > download page on sysinternals. That is all old hat I am afraid but thanks anyway. > i really do hope the project isn't dead, i find the > project remarkable in getting windows users to > transide over linux like myself.. i run on mswindows > and linux 50 vs 50% of the time.. Not dead at all. I think you might have been looking at the wrong web pages... Have a look at http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
