Support for Multiple Data Streams?

[Richard Sharpe]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, 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.

Right, XATTRs would be one way to do it on Linux. Of course, Samba needs 
some mods, and Tridge was looking at putting that into his NTVFS layer 
(where it belongs).

Regards
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