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diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/filename/storedosattributes.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/filename/storedosattributes.xml index 6fcab82f9c..621b4ace74 100644 --- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/filename/storedosattributes.xml +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/filename/storedosattributes.xml @@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ attribute named "user.DOSATTRIB". This extended attribute is explicitly hidden from smbd clients requesting an EA list. On Linux the filesystem must have been mounted with the mount option user_xattr in order for extended attributes to work, also extended attributes must be compiled into the Linux kernel. + + In Samba 3.5.0 and above the "user.DOSATTRIB" extended attribute has been extended to store + the create time for a file as well as the DOS attributes. This is done in a backwards compatible + way so files created by Samba 3.5.0 and above can still have the DOS attribute read from this + extended attribute by earlier versions of Samba, but they will not be able to read the create + time stored there. Storing the create time separately from the normal filesystem meta-data + allows Samba to faithfully reproduce NTFS semantics on top of a POSIX filesystem. </para> </description> <value type="default">no</value> |