FAT, NTFS, CIFS and DOS attributes
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jan 4 00:24:26 GMT 2005
tridge at samba.org wrote:
>
> We use the following xattrs in Samba4:
>
> user.DosAttrib : structure holding basic non-privileged attribute information
> user.DosEAs : all the DOS (OS/2) style EAs
> user.DosStreams : list of alternate data steams, flagged as internal or external
> user.DosStream.name: the stream data itself for internal streams
> security.NTACL : the NT ACL
>
> the rationale for making most of them in the user namespace is that it
> is 'mostly harmless' to allow the owner of the file to change those
> ones.
>
Right, it's the "design is broken so everything ends up in user.*".
Now, I clearly dislike the StudlyCaps used here, but if it's already
deployed it's probably too late to fix this :(
Does Samba have any way do deal with VFAT short names?
-hpa
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