Hi folks, if I recall correctly, I remember being able to set labels and statuses with directory opus that uses ntfs alternate data streams to store these properties and when I disabled these in the SMB config, it stopped being able to store them there and the program used an internal config file instead that does not preserve them on copy, move, etc.

ea support = no

store dos attributes = no

The advantage of storing them in the files is obviously to preserve these attributes. I don't know if I had a day dream but I think I remember being able to preserve those in the SMB share as well and copying back and forth from my machine.

Now my question is, is the xfs array when shared through SMB actually able to keep track of such attributes even if not usable directly in that file system and if I copy a file with ADS streams, will they remain but just not viewable outside of Windows?

If yes then I will take the question to Directory Opus forums because I already took off these lines from the SMB config and nothing happened which is why I am unsure.

If no then I guess the discussions stops here and I should be less distracted when I play with settings.

Thanks again for any tips.

I was able to re-enable them by using these options in the smb extra config:

ea support = yes

store dos attributes = yes

vfs objects = streams_xattr

streams_xattr:prefix = user.

streams_xattr:store_stream_type = no

The thing I still wonder about is that isn't this the default behavior, especially for the first 2? As far as I remember before touching the extra config that was working fine, I only tried disabling them to see if I could squeeze better performance.