Tool to access ZFS/NFSv4 alternate data streams on FreeBSD?

Lionel Cons lionelcons1972 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 5 21:42:20 UTC 2014


On 5 September 2014 19:26, Richard Yao <ryao at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 09/05/2014 11:35 AM, Jan Bramkamp wrote:
>> On 05.09.2014 16:25, Lionel Cons wrote:> Is there any tool which can be
>> used to access ZFS and NFSv4 alternate
>>> data streams on FreeBSD?
>>
>> Are you looking for lsextattr(8) and getextattr(8)?
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>
> Do you mean Solaris extended attributes? Those tend to be called
> resource forks on other platforms. Unifying extended attributes and
> resource forks was clever.
>

Yes, they are also called resource forks, or alternate data streams.
The attribute files which can be accessed via O_XATTR or cd -@
file/dir on newer ksh/ksh93/bash revisions.

Lionel


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