The reason I mentioned Solaris is because Solaris behaviour is closest to NTFS, whereas linux API is based upon Irix, which is closer in behaviour to OS/2 (OS/2 subsystem was another use case for ADS), as well as implementation on a bunch of other systems where extended attributes were treated as just that, attributes.
Comparatively, NTFS is very... flexible navigational database and a bunch of things are just "this is the default parameter set, not exhaustive".
I wasn't aware that FreeBSD copied Solaris in this (ZFS extended attributes by default create a sort-of directory object allocated linked from the file, linux supports inlining simplified xattrs for speed)
Comparatively, NTFS is very... flexible navigational database and a bunch of things are just "this is the default parameter set, not exhaustive".
I wasn't aware that FreeBSD copied Solaris in this (ZFS extended attributes by default create a sort-of directory object allocated linked from the file, linux supports inlining simplified xattrs for speed)