On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs writes:
>>
>> Can we call them "maps" or "metadata maps"? "forks" sounds weird.
>
> I'm not wedded to "forks", that's just the name that was used in the
> only previous example I've seen. Classic Mac had a "resource fork"
> and a "data fork" within each file.
Microsoft / NTFS calls them Data Streams:
http://www.wikistc.org/wiki/Alternate_data_streams
Jochem