On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 01:39:50AM -0500, Steve French wrote:
On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 11:33 PM ronnie sahlberg
<ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A problem we have with xattrs today is that we use EAs and these are
case insensitive.
Even worse I think windows may also convert the names to uppercase :-(
And there is no way to change it in the registry :-(
But for alternate data streams if we allowed them to be retrieved via xattrs,
would case sensitivity matter? Alternate data streams IIRC are already
case preserving. Presumably the more common case is for a Linux user
to read (or backup) an existing alternate data stream (which are usually
created by Windows so case sensitivity would not be relevant).
Warning Will Robinson ! Mixing ADS and xattrs on the client side is a receipe for
confusion and disaster IMHO.
They really are different things. No good will come of trying to mix
the two into one client namespace.
