[PLUG] Alternate data streams...

Ed Sawicki ed at alcpress.com
Mon Apr 28 06:31:30 UTC 2008


robinson-west user wrote:
> Anyone hear of these in NTFS?  Apparently, it is a feature that lets one
> hide data and it is available to everyone.  I wonder what other problems
> NTFS has?  There is a lot of effort to support NTFS in Linux and even
> the claim from the ReactOS group that they will eventually support it.
> Anyone know when http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ will finish it's
> maintenance?
> 
>      Michael Robinson

Here's an article I wrote about alternate data streams back
in the late 1990s:

http://www.alcpress.com/articles/ads.html

It's useful if you want to keep a Windows geek busy for a
few hours troubleshooting a disk space issue.

Ed



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