#301 NTFS and File Streams

[John Stroy]

Hi! Any support for NTFS Permissions and / or File
Streams (metadata for files on NTFS) in the future?

[Igor Pavlov]

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Now I'm not ready to that feature. Later.

[mabra]

Hi !

The worlds best zipper - so my vote - should really support this ! :-)
I am usually forec to use RAR for this :-)

Thanks anyway,
++mabra

[dripdrop]

Igor, I just noticed that you added support for both NTFS permissions and NTFS alternate streams in WIM files to a recent alpha version of 7-Zip.

Perhaps now would be a good time to add the support for files in the .7z format?

Thanks!

[Igor Pavlov]

I have the working code for these features.
But probably I'll not enable it in near versions.
I must think more about some aspects.

[liturgist]

What is your thinking about adding this?

[Shell]

7-Zip 18.06 does save alternate streams if they are specified explicitly (with colon in the file name); however, it refuses to extract them. I suggest extending the -sns swith with the following actions:
1) do not replace colon with underscore on extraction;
2) parse alternate streams of files to add on NT 6+ and add them to archive of any type (ZIP, for example, does not disallow colon from file names).
Action #1 is probably easy to implement.

[Igor Pavlov]

I didn't want partial solutions for alternate streams in 7z archives.
Full solution was suspended.