Subject: Re: Mac Aliases changing
From: Mario Klebsch DG1AM (mkl@charlie.rob.cs.tu-bs.de)
Date: Mon Jun 23 1997 - 19:35:32 EDT
Hi!
>If I recall correctly, there are three ways you can refer to a file--path,
>folder id + filename, and file id. While the path reference is consistent
>between mounts of a Netatalk volume, the folder and file id's are not. A
>Finder alias, unfortunately, uses one of the reference methods for which
>Netatalk is inconsistent: each mount of the volume, the alias will point to
>something different.
But afp does announce, wether the server supports FileIDs or not. And
I would use I-Node numbers as FileIDs. They are constant as long as
the File exists. However unlike real FileIDs, I-Node numbers get
reused.
73, Mario
-- Mario Klebsch, DG1AM, M.Klebsch@tu-bs.de +49 531 / 391 - 7457 Institut fuer Robotik und Prozessinformatik der TU Braunschweig Hamburger Strasse 267, 38114 Braunschweig, Germany
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