On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:28:33PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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....
OK - so the seekable bit could be emulated. The arbitrary length stuff may be a problem I guess.
