Alternate Data Streams

Richard Sharpe realrichardsharpe at gmail.com
Mon Apr 2 13:33:36 MDT 2012


On 4/2/12, simo <idra at samba.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 10:51 -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> On 4/2/12, simo <idra at samba.org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 10:26 -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> >> On 4/2/12, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
>> >> > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 10:21:31AM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> >> >> On 4/2/12, Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> > A user was asking about how to query alternate data streams of
>> >> >> > files
>> >> >> > (over cifs) remotely for backup.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Alternate Data Streams can be read from cifs (e.g.
>> >> >> > /path/filename:streamname) but not listed or created.   Any
>> >> >> > thoughts
>> >> >> > about whether this (at least listing the streams) should be done
>> >> >> > via
>> >> >> > an ioctl, xattr or ...?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Well, FindFirstStreamW and FindNextStreamW seem to available from
>> >> >> W2K03 on. There is a code project out there that you can search on.
>> >> >> I
>> >> >> hit it as the first link returned when I searched for "Enumerating
>> >> >> Alternate Data Streams"
>> >> >
>> >> > Remember Alternate Data Streams are dead from ReFS-onwards (thank
>> >> > god :-).
>> >>
>> >> A very useful piece of info.
>> >>
>> >> There seems to be an additional way to query for them however.
>> >>
>> >>      http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/alternate-streams.phtml
>> >
>> > I get a page not found for this link.
>>
>> Try now. I misspelled it ...
>
> No dice.

Sorry, there was two misspellings :-)

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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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