From: simo <idra@samba.org>
To: Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>, Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>,
linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Alternate Data Streams
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:45:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1333388705.2983.79.camel@pico.li.ssimo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACyXjPxyc=xsOMjx2xPfzyLu4pnD1dOBhkNcMGAn2y8+RR0xaA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 10:26 -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On 4/2/12, Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 10:21:31AM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> >> On 4/2/12, Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > A user was asking about how to query alternate data streams of files
> >> > (over cifs) remotely for backup.
> >> >
> >> > Alternate Data Streams can be read from cifs (e.g.
> >> > /path/filename:streamname) but not listed or created. Any thoughts
> >> > about whether this (at least listing the streams) should be done via
> >> > an ioctl, xattr or ...?
> >>
> >> Well, FindFirstStreamW and FindNextStreamW seem to available from
> >> W2K03 on. There is a code project out there that you can search on. I
> >> hit it as the first link returned when I searched for "Enumerating
> >> Alternate Data Streams"
> >
> > Remember Alternate Data Streams are dead from ReFS-onwards (thank
> > god :-).
>
> A very useful piece of info.
>
> There seems to be an additional way to query for them however.
>
> http://www.flexhex.com/doc/articles/alternat-streams.phtml
I get a page not found for this link.
Simo.
--
Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo@samba.org>
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo@redhat.com>
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2012-04-02 17:21 ` Alternate Data Streams Richard Sharpe
[not found] ` <CACyXjPyZGATA9vixXjG=O8FrTg6Aeb7Ew2jf_rKWqDhd5LW=1A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-02 17:23 ` Jeremy Allison
2012-04-02 17:26 ` Richard Sharpe
2012-04-02 17:45 ` simo [this message]
[not found] ` <1333388705.2983.79.camel-akOVU7JyYd8WIfilqQrPtNi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-02 17:51 ` Richard Sharpe
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