semantics of alternate data streams

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Gentlefolk

I dont seem to be able to find much at all definition of the semantics of
alternate data streams and the semantics of I/O ops for file objects which
relate to alternate data streams. I have tried to scour Platform SDK and IFS
KIT documentation without much avail. I was wondering if someone, perhaps
someone from Microsoft, could point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance
Lyndon

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Is there a specific question you have regarding alternate streams which
is not answered via MSDN? It would be much more easier to answer
specific questions…
Thanks
Ravi

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Gentlefolk

I dont seem to be able to find much at all definition of the semantics
of alternate data streams and the semantics of I/O ops for file objects
which relate to alternate data streams. I have tried to scour Platform
SDK and IFS KIT documentation without much avail. I was wondering if
someone, perhaps someone from Microsoft, could point me in the right
direction?

Thanks in advance
Lyndon

Questions? First check the IFS FAQ at
https://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=17

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Hi Ravisankar

Fair enough, I was optimistically hoping someone would be able to point me
at the msdn or whatever url I had missed, so to speak. I shall instead ask
more specific questions here as these arise.

Kind regards
Lyndon

“Ravisankar Pudipeddi” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntfsd…
Is there a specific question you have regarding alternate streams which
is not answered via MSDN? It would be much more easier to answer
specific questions…
Thanks
Ravi

-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Lyndon J Clarke
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 9:27 AM
To: Windows File Systems Devs Interest List
Subject: [ntfsd] semantics of alternate data streams

Gentlefolk

I dont seem to be able to find much at all definition of the semantics
of alternate data streams and the semantics of I/O ops for file objects
which relate to alternate data streams. I have tried to scour Platform
SDK and IFS KIT documentation without much avail. I was wondering if
someone, perhaps someone from Microsoft, could point me in the right
direction?

Thanks in advance
Lyndon

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The only link I found on MSDN which has some examples of ADS naming is:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base
/defragmenting_files.asp

Also Linux-NTFS project might help you:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/

There were some mentions about EA on this news list but I couldn’t find any
useful information about it neither in MSDN nor in IFS Kit, it seems to be a
closed information.

Hope this is what you are looking for.

–
Roman

“Lyndon J Clarke” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntfsd…
> Gentlefolk
>
> I dont seem to be able to find much at all definition of the semantics of
> alternate data streams and the semantics of I/O ops for file objects which
> relate to alternate data streams. I have tried to scour Platform SDK and
IFS
> KIT documentation without much avail. I was wondering if someone, perhaps
> someone from Microsoft, could point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Lyndon
>
>
>
>
>
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