From: Jeremy Allison <jra-eUNUBHrolfbYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
To: Steve French <smfrench-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields"
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Subject: Re: Making an interface for alternative data streams
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 10:01:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160323170145.GB4807@jra3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH2r5muya2+hWQup99QcxKV9XE4T_pWW565+fqWeu1tAnXSxoQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> One of the arguments in favor of additional interfaces (ioctl or
> openat) for accessing alternate data streams which may not be obvious
> to Windows users is that while alternate data streams can be opened
> just like regular files in Windows (and thus over SMB3 mounts), in
> Linux it is hard to allow opening a stream and still support files
> with the ':' (colon) character in their file name since colon is used
> a separator for the stream name in Windows (and is a reserved
> character), but is a valid character in POSIX. When we use a cifs
> or smb3 mount to Windows or Mac we typically map characters (into the
> Unicode remap range just above 0xF000) like ':' the same way the Mac
> does (and Windows services for Mac does as well). This is enabled
> with mount option "mapposix"
>
> So without an ioctl to query the stream contents (or a new syscall),
> you have to choose whether to either allow : in a filename or allow
> opening streams.
>
> There is some additional information on some of the more important
> uses in Windows for alternate data streams at the end of the article
> in this link: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askcore/2013/03/24/alternate-data-streams-in-ntfs/
Sorry Steve, but none of the uses in there can be called "important".
I personally have an intense dislike for streams in a filesystem,
and was very disappointed when Microsoft re-added them to the
previously streamless ReFS (probably for backwards compatibility
stuff like this).
There's no way to transfer stream-riddled files over the Internet,
and the amount of code complexity we have in Samba having to deal
with them is nasty and has lead to more than one security hole in
the past.
Please don't add this to Linux.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-23 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ 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
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
[not found] ` <CAH2r5muya2+hWQup99QcxKV9XE4T_pWW565+fqWeu1tAnXSxoQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-23 17:01 ` Jeremy Allison [this message]
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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