[OpenAFS-port-darwin] Resource / Data Forks

[David Botsch]

In my experience, it handles resource forks just fine, thought, not in separate
directories.

Instead, the resource fork for filename ends up in a file called ._filename

I don't know if this is an afs oddity or an OS X oddity.

While UNIX users won't see these ._ files, Windows users will (and can
potentially delete them). Depending on the file, this may or may not be a
problem.

Yes, a Mac user can save something to AFS space and then a MS or UNIX person
can open it (barring the usual problems inherent in things like MS Office can't
read its own files, etc).

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 06:36:59PM -0400, lists@southernohio.net wrote:
> I have been searching for an ideal solution to synchronize all user 
> files on my network.  It consists of MacOS X(.2.6), Windows XP, and 
> Linux (possibly soon to be FreeBSD) machines.  In part I want to do 
> this to create redundancy as a frequent backup of user files.  This 
> also needs to accommodate laptops.
> 
> I had heard of OpenAFS long ago, but just recently it came back into 
> the forefront while coming upon an article that basically said that it 
> blows all of the other options out of the water.
> 
> My question is how does it handle the HFS+ oddities (compared to other 
> Unix FS's and NTFS).  I would like to know how this works before I 
> start implementing this.  Will I be able to allow a user on MacOS X to 
> go to a Windows machine and see all of their Word documents?  (I assume 
> that that will work flawlessly)  But what happens when a Mac user has 
> resource forks on his or her files or applications?  Does OpenAFS 
> translate that properly so that it shows up as two directories to the 
> other OSes or does it destroy the fork and thus render this unusable 
> for Mac users?
> 
> If this does not work yet, what would it take to make it work so that 
> it is essentially seamless?  It would be wonderful to have a unified 
> redundant distributed file system!  And this would solve so many 
> problems that seem to be all over the forums about synching between 
> Windows, Mac, etc.
> 
> Thanks for any input!
> 
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