From: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Making an interface for alternative data streams
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 22:21:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56F0AC2A.30300@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <009F3E87-7919-4774-9129-72DB08F76553@gentoo.org>
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On 03/21/2016 09:02 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
>
>> On Mar 21, 2016, at 8:12 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:48:04PM +0100, Cedric Blancher wrote:
>>> Old invalid argument, and Sophos and Symatec look there as well.
>>>
>>> If it was a bad idea, why has Linux fs attributes which are almost the
>>> same as O_XATTR except that they use a custom api? Why does Macos have
>>> alternate streams (called forks)? Why did Solaris adopt it long ago
>>> (and still gets support questions about it - just saying before
>>> someone argues that no one uses THAT)?
>>
>> Could you point us at some of those users?
>
> I am told that Samba users would love this functionality.
Someone pinged me in IRC to let me know that Steve French was talking
about this earlier this month:
> Have there been any suggestions on how to list alternate data streams
> on a file other than using a pseudo-xattr as ntfs-3g does (querying
> xattr ntfs.streams.list - see http://linux.die.net/man/8/ntfs-3g)?
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cifs/11681
Windows appears to have name-value pair attributes and alternative data
streams in separate name-spaces simultaneously.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-22 2:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-21 18:11 Making an interface for alternative data streams Richard Yao
2016-03-21 18:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-21 18:51 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-21 19:17 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-21 20:19 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-21 20:40 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-21 22:36 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-03-21 22:48 ` Cedric Blancher
2016-03-22 0:12 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-22 1:02 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-22 2:21 ` Richard Yao [this message]
2016-03-22 16:15 ` Richard Sharpe
2016-03-22 20:08 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-22 20:13 ` Richard Sharpe
2016-03-22 20:32 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-22 21:42 ` Jeremy Allison
2016-03-23 4:13 ` Steve French
2016-03-23 4:19 ` Steve French
2016-03-23 14:45 ` Steve French
2016-03-23 17:01 ` Jeremy Allison
2016-03-23 17:01 ` Jeremy Allison
2016-03-23 17:16 ` Steve French
2016-03-23 15:16 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-22 2:01 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-22 21:29 ` Dave Chinner
2016-03-22 21:52 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-22 22:50 ` Dave Chinner
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