[Samba] New samba feature or new FF feature?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Aug 1 15:56:37 GMT 2008


On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 06:01:39PM -0700, Linda W wrote:
> Jeremy Allison wrote:
> >This is a bug in default 3.2 which I fixed recently. These
> >are Windows alternate data streams, and Samba 3.0.x refuses
> >to create them entirely. Samba 3.2 has a VFS module which
> >will store them in xattr's "streams_xattr", and one that
> >will store them in a db in the filesystem ("streams_depot")
> >so you can either enable them for the share, or wait for 3.2.1
> >(due August) which will filter them out if you don't explicitly
> >enable them.
> >
> >Sorry for the problem.
> ----
> 	Ah...no biggie-- just was upgrading samba and didn't know if I'd
> misconfigured something else...
> :-)

I have the patch (it's very simple) if you would like it.

Jeremy.


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