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Date:   Mon, 22 May 2023 09:21:27 -0700
From:   Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
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Subject: Re: Displaying streams as xattrs
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On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 01:39:50AM -0500, Steve French wrote:
>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).

Warning Will Robinson ! Mixing ADS and xattrs on the client side is a receipe for
confusion and disaster IMHO.

They really are different things. No good will come of trying to mix
the two into one client namespace.