Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-21 Thread Olaf Frczyk
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 01:12, Richard Sharpe wrote: Right, XATTRs would be one way to do it on Linux. Of course, Samba needs some mods, and Tridge was looking at putting that into his NTVFS layer (where it belongs). Hi, It will not work. For example XFS has maximum length for them: 64 KB.

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread jra
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:01:51PM -0500, Ken Cross wrote: Samba-folk: Samba apparently does not support Alternate Data Streams/Multiple Data Streams. ADS/MDS are the hidden files associated with the Summary tab on a 2K/XP/.Net version of Windows. A file on a SAMBA_3_0 server does not

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Ken Cross wrote: Samba-folk: Samba apparently does not support Alternate Data Streams/Multiple Data Streams. ADS/MDS are the hidden files associated with the Summary tab on a 2K/XP/.Net version of Windows. A file on a SAMBA_3_0 server does not even display the

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Ken Cross wrote: Samba-folk: Samba apparently does not support Alternate Data Streams/Multiple Data Streams. ADS/MDS are the hidden files associated with the Summary tab on a 2K/XP/.Net version of Windows. A file on a SAMBA_3_0 server does not even display the

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
Ken, How would you store that information on a Unix filesystem? How do you prevent users or other services from messing things up? There are solutions, but it's a much bigger problem than it seems on the surface. Chris -)- On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:01:51PM -0500, Ken Cross wrote:

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: Ken, How would you store that information on a Unix filesystem? How do you prevent users or other services from messing things up? There are solutions, but it's a much bigger problem than it seems on the surface. There are some

RE: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Ken Cross
R. Hertel Cc: 'samba-technical'; Ken Cross Subject: Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams? On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: Ken, How would you store that information on a Unix filesystem? How do you prevent users or other services from messing things up

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:14:29PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: Ken, How would you store that information on a Unix filesystem? How do you prevent users or other services from messing things up? There are solutions, but it's a

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Tim Potter
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

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread jra
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,

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, 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

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Tim Potter
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:28:33PM +, [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

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote: : in samba we filter out path names witch include ':' and return STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND Kewl... So, what do we do if the filename on the server actually *does* have a colon in it? (I can check for myself but it's worth discussing...) Chris -)- --

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Stefan Metzmacher
At 00:32 21.03.2003 -0600, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote: : in samba we filter out path names witch include ':' and return STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND Kewl... So, what do we do if the filename on the server actually *does* have a colon in it? (I can check for