On 2015-04-30 at 17:46 +0300 Boaz Harrosh sent off: > The hacks need not be so ugly and they can be well documented and poblished > as a public STD. > ./foo-with-streams (With xatters info) > ./.foo-with-streams.__STREAMES__/ (backpointer xattrs-info) > ./.foo-with-streams.__STREAMES__/SA > ./.foo-with-streams.__STREAMES__/SB > ... > And some special mod bits on the .foo-with-streams.__STREAMES__ directory > > The smb read-dir parser removes those hidden directories any hack like this would mean that for long file names which are close NAME_MAX this will not work. Yes, such long file names are being used. Apart from the fact that the meta data is detached from the file, which also makes this workaround quite sub-optimal. Still the only real solution I see would be bigger EA sizes. I was hoping that this would be not a big challenge for the Linux kernel. Björn -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen ☎ +49-551-370000-0, ℻ +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html