[OpenAFS-devel] AFS server on Mac OS X

[emoy@apple.com]

On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 07:00  PM, Chaskiel M Grundman wrote:

> --On Monday, January 20, 2003 18:26:20 -0800 Edward Moy  
> <emoy@apple.com>
> wrote:
>
>> When I try to replicate the root.afs and root.cell, it fails when I  
>> try
>> to release and fails during salvaging.
> So, I realized when reading your initial message that the current namei
> fileserver can't actually work on Macos X with HFS filesytems, since  
> the
> "flipbase64" encoding it does to map volume ids and vnode/unique  
> tuples to
> filenames requires case sensitivity. That is, different numbers can  
> map to
> the same name if case is ignored. So, while I can't be sure that that  
> this
> is the cause of your current problem, it definitely will cause problems
> eventually.
>
> I therefore suggest you try using UFS at least in the short term, and
> perhaps at some point someone will come up with an alternative namei
> implimentation that doesn't have this restriction.

I actually had two vice partitions, one UFS and one HFS, just to try  
them out.  I've mostly been using the UFS partition, as the one time I  
tried to create a volume on the HFS partition, it totally hosed  
everything, so you call is correct.
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Edward Moy
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