All the new compression methods use them. Also windows Subsystem for Linux.

dataflow · on June 14, 2018

AFAIK the Windows subsystem for Linux only uses extended attributes, not alternate data streams.

But yes, :WofCompressedData is used for the (awesome) transparent read-only LZX compression.

TiredOfLife · on June 14, 2018

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/06/15/wsl-file-sys... says that something is also kept in ads

dataflow · on June 14, 2018

Oh wow, interesting, thanks for sharing! So it says:

> In addition, if a file has any file capabilities, these are stored in an alternate data stream for the file. Note that WSL currently does not allow users to modify file capabilities for a file.

I've never actually seen this used... I wonder what commands would trigger it?