Whose feature is it? The colon syntax

NTFSD
1

As you know, one can create multiple file streams on NTFSs by using this
colon syntax
xxx:st1 is one and xxx:foo is another stream.

whose feature is this syntax.
Is it win32’s or does it belong to OM or to NTFS?

2

NTFS

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Subject: [ntfsd] Whose feature is it? The colon syntax

As you know, one can create multiple file streams on NTFSs by using this

colon syntax
xxx:st1 is one and xxx:foo is another stream.

whose feature is this syntax.
Is it win32’s or does it belong to OM or to NTFS?

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Actually, the namespace support for the colon is intrinsic to the OS,
but NTFS makes use of multiple data streams using the colon syntax.

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NTFS

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Subject: [ntfsd] Whose feature is it? The colon syntax

As you know, one can create multiple file streams on NTFSs by using this

colon syntax
xxx:st1 is one and xxx:foo is another stream.

whose feature is this syntax.
Is it win32’s or does it belong to OM or to NTFS?

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This is NTFS’s feature. Win32 just supports pathnames with such syntax, nothing
more.

Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
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Subject: [ntfsd] Whose feature is it? The colon syntax

> As you know, one can create multiple file streams on NTFSs by using this
> colon syntax
> xxx:st1 is one and xxx:foo is another stream.
>
> whose feature is this syntax.
> Is it win32’s or does it belong to OM or to NTFS?
>
>
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> You are currently subscribed to ntfsd as: xxxxx@storagecraft.com
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