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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 underlying filesystem data?
No. NTFS supports links, reparse points, and multiple data streams. – JdeBP – 2011-12-11T11:21:05.503
@JdeBP False. See here for more.
– soandos – 2011-12-11T11:37:24.977Pointing to a MSKB article that says, as I did, that NTFS supports multiple data streams is not actually evidence of falsehood. And the KB article doesn't say anything about reparse points at all. Here's a hint: You won't find a MSKB article that contradicts what I wrote, because what I wrote is not, in fact, false. ☺ – JdeBP – 2011-12-11T11:50:33.450
NTFS has supported all three since Windows Vista. Hard links and ADSes since Windows NT 3.1. Reparse points were introduced in Windows 2000 with NTFS v3. (see here, and here)
– Andrew Lambert – 2011-12-11T11:52:45.4632@Amazed: Symlinks are just a form of reparse points (several other forms are junctions and mount points). – user1686 – 2011-12-11T21:44:42.273