On 4/2/12, Jeremy Allison <jra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 10:21:31AM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> On 4/2/12, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> 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/doc/articles/alternat-streams.phtml
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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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