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Subject: Re: Making an interface for alternative data streams
From: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160322001255.GA2353@fieldses.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 21:02:46 -0400
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>
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To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
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> 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.
> 
> --b.