Support for Multiple Data Streams?

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:12:47AM +1100, Tim Potter wrote:
> 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.

You can't seek within them and they are not of arbitrary length. 
Streams are seekable and are to all intents and purposes another
file. Solaris has something similar....

Jeremy.