On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:46:59PM -0500, Ken Cross wrote: > Yes, to support it properly, the underlying filesystem should include > all streams when you cp/mv/rm/... And a "portable" backup/restore could > be interesting! > > However, I'm having trouble getting Samba to return goofy names like > "filename:ADS". It keeps mangling them (even with mangling disabled).
What's wrong with extended attributes? They satisfy the portability requirements (modulo some autoconf stuff that is probably required to create a uniform system call interface) and are backed up and restored by dump. Tim.