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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: tridge@samba.org
Cc: Michael B Allen <mba2000@ioplex.com>,
	sfrench@samba.org, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net,
	samba-technical@lists.samba.org, aia21@cantab.net,
	hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FAT, NTFS, CIFS and DOS attributes
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 16:24:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41D9E23A.4010608@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16857.57572.25294.431752@samba.org>

tridge@samba.org wrote:
> 
> We use the following xattrs in Samba4:
> 
>  user.DosAttrib     : structure holding basic non-privileged attribute information
>  user.DosEAs        : all the DOS (OS/2) style EAs
>  user.DosStreams    : list of alternate data steams, flagged as internal or external
>  user.DosStream.name: the stream data itself for internal streams
>  security.NTACL     : the NT ACL
> 
> the rationale for making most of them in the user namespace is that it
> is 'mostly harmless' to allow the owner of the file to change those
> ones.
 >

Right, it's the "design is broken so everything ends up in user.*". 
Now, I clearly dislike the StudlyCaps used here, but if it's already 
deployed it's probably too late to fix this :(

Does Samba have any way do deal with VFAT short names?

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-04  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-03 22:24 FAT, NTFS, CIFS and DOS attributes H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-03 23:26 ` Michael B Allen
2005-01-03 23:33   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-03 23:48     ` Michael B Allen
2005-01-03 23:55       ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-04  0:18     ` tridge
2005-01-04  0:24       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-01-04  0:39         ` tridge
2005-01-04  0:57           ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-04  1:12             ` tridge
2005-01-04  1:31         ` Nicholas Miell
2005-01-04  1:48           ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-04  2:05             ` Nicholas Miell
2005-01-04 22:24       ` [Linux-NTFS-Dev] " Szakacsits Szabolcs
2005-01-04  1:21   ` tridge
2005-01-04  1:30     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-03 23:28 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-01-04  0:05 ` tridge
2005-01-04  0:30   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-04  0:58     ` tridge
2005-01-04  1:14       ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-04  1:36         ` tridge
2005-01-04  1:50           ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-04  2:05             ` tridge
2005-01-04  2:09               ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-04  2:23               ` Kyle Moffett
2005-01-04  2:49                 ` tridge
2005-01-04  3:39                   ` Kyle Moffett
2005-01-04  3:56                     ` tridge
2005-01-04  4:50                       ` Kyle Moffett
2005-01-04  4:05     ` Michael B Allen
2005-01-04 10:34 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-01-04 11:08   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-01-04 22:18   ` Nicholas Miell
2005-01-04 23:04     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-01-05  0:48       ` Nicholas Miell
2005-01-05  1:12         ` Nicholas Miell

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