/Spam/ [Xitami] Xitami performance regarding directory structures

[Marc Doigny]

At 09:59 9/06/05, you wrote:
>In message <5.1.0.14.2.20050608184435.01f5ed10@verfaillie4.verfaillie.local>
>    Marc Doigny writes:
>
>Do Microsoft really use the name "stream" for this?  It seems an
>unfortunate (and misleading) ambiguity, given that "streams" already gets
>used for multi-processing activity [within an application] and also for
>"the contents of a file in the file system".

We (programmers in a windows environment) use the word 'thread' for 
multiple processing.
http://www.powerbasic.com/support/technote/multithreading1.asp

Streams on NTFS volumes are something else than extended attributes, they 
are just an alternate file content. The main file content (the one you see 
when you open the file in a word processor) is the unnamed stream.
http://www.powerbasic.com/support/forums/Forum4/HTML/003677.html

Both links contain very intersting info!


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