Re: Displaying streams as xattrs

[Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 11:33 PM ronnie sahlberg
<ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A problem  we have with xattrs today is that we use EAs and these are
> case insensitive.
> Even worse I think windows may also convert the names to uppercase :-(
> And there is no way to change it in the registry :-(

But for alternate data streams if we allowed them to be retrieved via xattrs,
would case sensitivity matter?  Alternate data streams IIRC are already
case preserving.   Presumably the more common case is for a Linux user
to read (or backup) an existing alternate data stream (which are usually
created by Windows so case sensitivity would not be relevant).

> On Mon, 22 May 2023 at 12:09, Steve French via samba-technical
> <samba-technical@lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >
> > Looking through code today (in fs/cifs/xattr.c) I noticed an old
> > reference to returning alternate data streams as pseudo-xattrs.
> > Although it is possible to list streams via "smbinfo filestreaminfo"
> > presumably it is not common (opening streams on remote files from
> > Linux is probably not done as commonly as it should be as well).
> >
> > Any thoughts about returning alternate data streams via pseudo-xattrs?
> > Macs apparently allow this (see e.g.
> > https://www.jankyrobotsecurity.com/2018/07/24/accessing-alternate-data-streams-from-a-mac/)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve
> >



-- 
Thanks,

Steve