Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 20:12:55 -0400
From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>,
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        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Making an interface for alternative data streams
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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?

--b.