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From: Jeremy Allison <jra-eUNUBHrolfbYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Alternate Data Streams
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 10:23:46 -0700
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On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 10:21:31AM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On 4/2/12, Steve French <smfrench-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 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 :-).