1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>vfs_streams_xattr</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="vfs_streams_xattr.8"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>vfs_streams_xattr — Store alternate data streams in posix xattrs</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">vfs objects = streams_xattr</code></p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2522902"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This VFS module is part of the 2 <a class="citerefentry" href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p>The <code class="literal">vfs_streams_xattr</code> enables storing of NTFS 3 alternate data streams in the file system. As a normal posix file 4 system does not support the concept of multiple data streams per file, 5 the streams_xattr module stores the data in posix extended attributes 6 (xattrs). The name of these attributes is 7 user.DosStream."ADS-NAME".</p><p>The file system that is shared with this module enabled must 8 support xattrs.</p><p>Please note that most file systems have severe limitations on 9 the size of xattrs. So this module might work for applications like IE 10 that stores small zone information in streams but will fail for 11 applications that store serious amounts of data in ADSs.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2483321"></a><h2>EXAMPLES</h2><pre class="programlisting"> 12 <em class="parameter"><code>[share]</code></em> 13 <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#VFSOBJECTS" target="_top">vfs objects = streams_xattr</a> 14</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2483346"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities 15 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed 16 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar 17 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p></div></div></body></html> 18