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Date:      Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:30:35 -0800
From:      Mark Day <mday@apple.com>
To:        Javier Lazareno Blas <jlb@tid.es>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ntfs driver
Message-ID:  <0DB067B1-6E62-437F-AA48-D48D89C13C91@apple.com>
In-Reply-To: <003201c615bc$577fb520$520e5f0a@jlb>
References:  <003201c615bc$577fb520$520e5f0a@jlb>

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On Jan 10, 2006, at 12:03 AM, Javier Lazareno Blas wrote:

> Hi all, i am reading the source of the ntfs driver, and i don=B4t =20
> understand why it uses two different structures for files? (ntnode =20
> and fnode) do you know why?

That's because NTFS allows multiple streams per file.  The ntnode is =20
the per-file structure, and the fnode is the per-stream structure.

-Mark




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