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List:       freebsd-fs
Subject:    Re: ntfs driver
From:       Mark Day <mday () apple ! com>
Date:       2006-01-10 16:30:35
Message-ID: 0DB067B1-6E62-437F-AA48-D48D89C13C91 () apple ! com
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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 donīt  
> understand why it uses two different structures for files? (ntnode  
> and fnode) do you know why?

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

-Mark


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