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Advanced file attributes in windows (ntfs)

I am currently working on a cross-platform application that uses advanced file attributes to store its own file ownership information (uid, gid) outside the normal file system. This information is specific to the application and has nothing to do with the normal file system.

I simply refused to use the small database stored in each folder to store this information for performance reasons, but this leaves my solution missing on the Windows platform.

According to wikipedia , NTFS may have limited functionality because it is able to store extended file attributes, but I certainly don’t find additional information on how to get and set these attributes.

Has anyone done this before and can tell me how to do this? Or is it simply impossible?

Ideally, I would not want to return to the database solution in Windows.

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Perhaps NTFS streams are what you are looking for?

More details here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/105763 , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff469210.aspx

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