[Samba] MS DFS and File Replication

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:27:41PM +0100, Giulio Orsero wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:15:25 +0000 (GMT), John H Terpstra <jht at samba.org>
> wrote:
> 
> >When you find a way the Rsync team would love to hear from you. So the
> >answer is No.
> I asked because original poster seems to need this option. See last 3 lines
> of last paragraph of his email.
> 
> I thought since A.Tridgell works with samba and xfs, and he's the author of
> rsync, maybe there was a chance he had needed this for quantum appliances.

Well it's definately a missing 'feature' in the rsync protocol. As would
be extended attributes and multiple data streams per file. Maybe rsync
could be extended to add these metadata elements, as files on an NTFS system
would need them.

The problem is there is no "standard" definition of extended attributes
or multiple data streams per file (although POSIX ACLs are enough of a
standard to add them into Samba).

Jeremy.