[OpenAFS-port-darwin] Resource / Data Forks

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Perhaps I should ask another question...  Can /Users be mounted safely 
as AFS?  Or is it better practice to have Users' subdirectories mounted 
as AFS?  ie, /Users/me/Documents is AFS.

Thanks!  I'm started to get excited!  :D  This will be a network 
administrator's dream come true.

On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 07:21  PM, David Botsch wrote:

> 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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