[Samba] NFSv4 acls inheritance flags

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri May 9 12:17:48 MDT 2014


On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 09:56:58AM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> 
> If you want better integration, you should lobby for Unix
> file systems to give us something equivalent to alternate
> data streams. You should be able to openat(2) xattrs of
> arbitrary size on any file. If Samba gets that, we can talk
> about better integration :-)

I don't think ADS is ever going to happen, at
least on Linux.

Talk to Ted Tso about watching the Windows
"Process Manager" running "myfile.txt" as
a process (with a hidden stream .exe inside
it) for background on why he thinks this
is a *terrible* idea (Ted CC:ed on this one :-).

Jeremy.


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