Support for Multiple Data Streams?

[Christopher R. Hertel]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:14:29PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> 
> > Ken,
> > 
> > How would you store that information on a Unix filesystem?  How do you 
> > prevent users or other services from messing things up?
> > 
> > There are solutions, but it's a much bigger problem than it seems on the 
> > surface.
> 
> There are some interesting issues here. Alternate Data Streams can be 
> accessed via CIFS, but there is no special support built into the 
> protocol. 

Right.  On the other hand, the old-style OS/2 EAs do require special 
protocol handling.  They are similar in concept to alternate streams, and 
NTFS does support them.

I think there is also an NTTrans call for exchaning navel lint, and NTFS
has an attribute set aside for storing walrus blubber against a long cold
winter.

Man, what a system...

Chris -)-----

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