OS/2 extended attributes

[Allen Reese]

There is a way that you could store attributes regardless of underlying
filesystem.  granted it would be a long task, but once you did it you
caould store BeOS attributes, OS/2 Attributes or any other OS'es
attributes.

basically you take advantage of the fact the data is stored in the file,
and the attributes aren't.

then you have a database with all of the files for a dir in it, and in
that you store all the attributes.  or you do like Apple does, they store
a .AppleDpuble directory, and store resource forks in there.

Either way that is a very little on how to do such a thing.

The other part is you would have to write your own client to talk to the
server and store/retrieve these attributes.  ;)

Allen Reese
Senior Software Engineer
Driversoft, Inc.
allen at driversoft.com

On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:

> Markus,
> 
> Novell owns the filesystem space on the server and can add features
> whenever they want.  Samba runs on a wide variety of Unix platforms (and
> other platforms too).  If I understand correctly (which would be unusual),
> the OS/2 extended attributes are stored in the OS/2 filesystem.  In this
> regard, Samba is at the mercy of the local filesystem.  If there is
> nowhere to store these attributes, then we can't store them. 
> 
> I'm sure someone else on the list will correct me if I'm off the mark on
> this.  I do know that there are filesystems developed or being developed 
> for various Unix platforms which do have space for things like ACLs.  I 
> believe that there is some work being done to allow Samba to make use of 
> those features, if they are available.
> 
> Chris -)-----
> 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Does anybody know if there are plans to store extended attributes
> > on with smb. Since Novell has managed to do so it should be
> > doable with samba.
> > 
> > I'd be interested in implementing eas if someone could give a
> > clue where to start with.
> > 
> > Markus
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Christopher R. Hertel -)-----                   University of Minnesota
> crh at nts.umn.edu              Networking and Telecommunications Services
>