Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-21 Thread Olaf Frączyk
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 01:12, Richard Sharpe wrote: > > Right, XATTRs would be one way to do it on Linux. Of course, Samba needs > some mods, and Tridge was looking at putting that into his NTVFS layer > (where it belongs). Hi, It will not work. For example XFS has maximum length for them: 64 KB.

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Stefan Metzmacher
At 00:32 21.03.2003 -0600, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: "Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" wrote: : > in samba we filter out path names witch include ':' and return > STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND Kewl... So, what do we do if the filename on the server actually *does* have a colon in it? (I can check for

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
"Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" wrote: : > in samba we filter out path names witch include ':' and return > STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND Kewl... So, what do we do if the filename on the server actually *does* have a colon in it? (I can check for myself but it's worth discussing...) Chris -)- -

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Stefan (metze) Metzmacher
At 13:14 20.03.2003 -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: There are some interesting issues here. Alternate Data Streams can be accessed via CIFS, but there is no special support built into the protocol. They are simply accessed syntactically. An ADS has a name like :, and NTFS maps that to the named $DATA

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:12:47AM +1100, Tim Potter wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:46:59PM -0500, Ken Cross wrote: > > > Yes, to support it properly, the underlying filesystem should include > > all streams when you cp/mv/rm/... And a "portable" backup/restore could > > be interesting! > >

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Tim Potter
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:28:33PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Yes, to support it properly, the underlying filesystem should include > > > all streams when you cp/mv/rm/... And a "portable" backup/restore could > > > be interesting! > > > > > > However, I'm having trouble getting Samba

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Tim Potter wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:46:59PM -0500, Ken Cross wrote: > > > Yes, to support it properly, the underlying filesystem should include > > all streams when you cp/mv/rm/... And a "portable" backup/restore could > > be interesting! > > > > However, I'm ha

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread jra
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:12:47AM +1100, Tim Potter wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:46:59PM -0500, Ken Cross wrote: > > > Yes, to support it properly, the underlying filesystem should include > > all streams when you cp/mv/rm/... And a "portable" backup/restore could > > be interesting! > >

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Tim Potter
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:46:59PM -0500, Ken Cross wrote: > Yes, to support it properly, the underlying filesystem should include > all streams when you cp/mv/rm/... And a "portable" backup/restore could > be interesting! > > However, I'm having trouble getting Samba to return goofy names like

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
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,

RE: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Ken Cross
t; Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 4:14 PM > To: Christopher R. Hertel > Cc: 'samba-technical'; Ken Cross > Subject: Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams? > > > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: > > > Ken, > > > > How would you

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Richard Sharpe
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

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
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. Chris -)- On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:01:51PM -0500, Ken Cross wrote: > Samb

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Ken Cross wrote: > Samba-folk: > > Samba apparently does not support Alternate Data Streams/Multiple Data > Streams. ADS/MDS are the hidden files associated with the Summary tab > on a 2K/XP/.Net version of Windows. A file on a SAMBA_3_0 server does > not even display the S

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Ken Cross wrote: > Samba-folk: > > Samba apparently does not support Alternate Data Streams/Multiple Data > Streams. ADS/MDS are the hidden files associated with the Summary tab > on a 2K/XP/.Net version of Windows. A file on a SAMBA_3_0 server does > not even display the S

Re: Support for Multiple Data Streams?

2003-03-20 Thread jra
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:01:51PM -0500, Ken Cross wrote: > Samba-folk: > > Samba apparently does not support Alternate Data Streams/Multiple Data > Streams. ADS/MDS are the hidden files associated with the Summary tab > on a 2K/XP/.Net version of Windows. A file on a SAMBA_3_0 server does > no