On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:14:29PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: > > > Ken, > > > > How would you store that information on a Unix filesystem? How do you > > prevent users or other services from messing things up? > > > > There are solutions, but it's a much bigger problem than it seems on the > > surface. > > There are some interesting issues here. Alternate Data Streams can be > accessed via CIFS, but there is no special support built into the > protocol.
Right. On the other hand, the old-style OS/2 EAs do require special protocol handling. They are similar in concept to alternate streams, and NTFS does support them. I think there is also an NTTrans call for exchaning navel lint, and NTFS has an attribute set aside for storing walrus blubber against a long cold winter. Man, what a system... Chris -)----- -- Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- [EMAIL PROTECTED]