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When and why to deprecate filesystems

When and why to deprecate filesystems

Posted Mar 9, 2022 7:44 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: When and why to deprecate filesystems by stevie-oh
Parent article: When and why to deprecate filesystems

Judging by that Wikipedia article, alternate data streams are now used for similar purposes as Linux uses extended attributes. So not an entirely useless feature.
Copying from NTFS to a modern Linux file system could use an extended attribute to simulate a stream, unless it contains too much data.

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When and why to deprecate filesystems

Posted Mar 10, 2022 2:26 UTC (Thu) by bartoc (guest, #124262) [Link]

yes, however really you might want some translation (in particular for mark-of-the-web).

NTFS supports actual extended attributes too, so you have some risk of collision if you try and merge ADS and ntfs xattr.

When and why to deprecate filesystems

Posted Mar 18, 2022 19:55 UTC (Fri) by cypherpunks2 (guest, #152408) [Link] (1 responses)

ADS and xattrs aren't entirely equivalent. One important aspect of ADS is that the stream cannot be accessed without knowing the name, whereas you can list all existing xattrs for a file without knowing them.

When and why to deprecate filesystems

Posted Mar 19, 2022 23:34 UTC (Sat) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

I find that very hard to believe, given that (a) you couldn't backup your system without that function and (b) you get pointers to numerous utilities as well as the relevant Windows kernel functions when you do a simple web search for "enumerate alternate data streams".


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