Named Streams

This option controls whether to allow or prevent users from accessing alternate data streams of a file or directory.

Alternate data streams (or named streams) allow files to contain additional streams of data, in addition to its default stream ($DATA). The default stream and the alternate data streams may be opened, written to and read from independently of each other.

Fusion SMB server uses extended attributes (xattr) provided by the underlying filesystem to support named streams. For interoperability with SMB clients this option must be set to ‘false’ if the underlying filesystem does not support extended attributes.

Default: true

Example:

named_streams = false