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Hard/SymLinks and Alternate Data Streams

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Mar 15, 20261258 views
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An interesting thought just occurred to me while thinking about NTFS. NTFS supports hard links, symbolic links, and Alternate Data Streams. Is it possible for an ADS to be a link to another file? Conversely, do the Alternate Data Streams attached to a link belong to the link itself or to the underl…

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Fix for: Hard/SymLinks and Alternate Data Streams

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I tried it. Here are my results: The behavior indicates that the ADS is attached to the filesystem data and not the directory entry.

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