On 2023-05-22 at 09:21 -0700 Jeremy Allison via samba-technical sent off: > 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. > just took a look at how the ntfs-3g module is handling this. It was an option streams_interface=value, which allows "windows", which means that the alternative data streams are accessable as-is like in Windows, with ":" being the separator. This might be a nice option for cifsfs also. That option would just be usable if no posix extensions are enabled of course. Björn
