On 03/21/2016 09:02 PM, Richard Yao wrote: > >> On Mar 21, 2016, at 8:12 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:48:04PM +0100, Cedric Blancher wrote: >>> Old invalid argument, and Sophos and Symatec look there as well. >>> >>> If it was a bad idea, why has Linux fs attributes which are almost the >>> same as O_XATTR except that they use a custom api? Why does Macos have >>> alternate streams (called forks)? Why did Solaris adopt it long ago >>> (and still gets support questions about it - just saying before >>> someone argues that no one uses THAT)? >> >> Could you point us at some of those users? > > I am told that Samba users would love this functionality. Someone pinged me in IRC to let me know that Steve French was talking about this earlier this month: > Have there been any suggestions on how to list alternate data streams > on a file other than using a pseudo-xattr as ntfs-3g does (querying > xattr ntfs.streams.list - see http://linux.die.net/man/8/ntfs-3g)? http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cifs/11681 Windows appears to have name-value pair attributes and alternative data streams in separate name-spaces simultaneously.
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