On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:12:47AM +1100, Tim Potter wrote: > 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.
You can't seek within them and they are not of arbitrary length. Streams are seekable and are to all intents and purposes another file. Solaris has something similar.... Jeremy.
