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.... FreeBSD actually allows creation of large extended attributes (at least on ZFS volumes). I've personally added ones of up to 3MB in size, but have never actually tested the limits. For the fun of it I decided to run the following command from the CLI in FreeBSD "cat <large file> | setextattr -i user 'DosStream.User.SecretStream:$DATA' test.txt" This had the effect of creating something that samba should recognize as an ADS that is arbitrarily large. If I run the following powershell command from a Windows client "Get-Item -Path .\test.txt -stream *", I do not se...

...ize, but have never actually tested the limits. oh, really? Does it these day support the POSIX file IO API on xattrs like Solaris does? It didn't the last time I checked. > For the fun of it I decided to run the following command from the CLI in > FreeBSD "cat <large file> | setextattr -i user > 'DosStream.User.SecretStream:$DATA' test.txt" This had the effect of > creating something that samba should recognize as an ADS that is > arbitrarily large. > > If I run the following powershell command from a Windows client "Get-Item > -Path .\test.tx...