Support for Multiple Data Streams?

[Tim Potter]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:28:33PM +0000, jra at dp.samba.org 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.
> 
> You can't seek within them and they are not of arbitrary length. 
> Streams are seekable and are to all intents and purposes another
> file. Solaris has something similar....

OK - so the seekable bit could be emulated.  The arbitrary length stuff
may be a problem I guess.