On Oct 18, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Ah, then when the user 'cleans up' all those dot files from her
Windows
box that happens to be mounting the same volume exported via Samba,
they become unusable! ;-)
Not usually. meta data in resource forks is supposed to be non
essential data (window positions, etc). If they are using the stuff
cross platform they probably won't have resource forks in the first
place or can survive without them.
In practice it is not a problem for most people. And on OS X most
apps do not create resource forked files anyway
Chad
Ted
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At 03:30 Tue 18 Oct 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Right, but a lot of Mac files still use that awful resource/data
fork
thing
that some idiot at Apple dreamed up and that isn't supported
under NFS
that I'm aware.
Oh, how I loathe those resource forks. I've been experimenting
with these resource forks a lot lately (why? a long, boring, and
pitiful tale), and I'm happy to report that the Mac actually
_does_ seem to preserve the resource forks over NFS. If I copy a
file called "file" with a resource fork over NFS to the file
server it also copies over a file called "._file" which seems to
contain all that nice metadata.
Still, I don't trust it.
Lee
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