Support for Multiple Data Streams?

[Tim Potter]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:46:59PM -0500, Ken Cross wrote:

> Yes, to support it properly, the underlying filesystem should include
> all streams when you cp/mv/rm/...  And a "portable" backup/restore could
> be interesting!
> 
> However, I'm having trouble getting Samba to return goofy names like
> "filename:ADS".  It keeps mangling them (even with mangling disabled).

What's wrong with extended attributes?  They satisfy the portability
requirements (modulo some autoconf stuff that is probably required to
create a uniform system call interface) and are backed up and restored
by dump.


Tim.