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When and why to deprecate filesystems

When and why to deprecate filesystems

Posted Mar 18, 2022 19:55 UTC (Fri) by cypherpunks2 (guest, #152408)
In reply to: When and why to deprecate filesystems by eru
Parent article: When and why to deprecate filesystems

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.

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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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