vfs_streams_depot - EXPERIMENTAL module to store alternate data streams in a central directory.

Author

       The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
       by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.

Samba 4.22.3-Ubuntu-4.22.3+dfs                     07/21/2025                               VFS_STREAMS_DEPOT(8)

Description

       This EXPERIMENTAL VFS module is part of the samba(7) suite.

       The vfs_streams_depot enables storing of NTFS alternate data streams in the file system. As a normal
       posix file system does not support the concept of multiple data streams per file, the streams_depot
       module stores the data in files in a separate directory.

Examples

[share]vfsobjects=streams_depot

Name

       vfs_streams_depot - EXPERIMENTAL module to store alternate data streams in a central directory.

Options

       streams_depot:directory = PATH
           Path of the directory where the alternate data streams should be stored. Defaults to the
           sharepath/.streams.

       streams_depot:delete_lost = [ yes | no ]
           In the case of an already existing data streams directory for a newly created file the streams
           directory will be renamed to "lost-%lu", random(). With this option lost stream directories will be
           removed instead of renamed.

                  •   no(default) - rename lost streams to "lost-%lu", random().

                  •   yes - remove lost streams.