Subject: Re: Mac Aliases changing
From: Mario Klebsch DG1AM (mkl@charlie.rob.cs.tu-bs.de)
Date: Thu Jun 26 1997 - 06:53:28 EDT
Hi!
>A better solution would be to place a single file at the root of the
>mounted volume containing, basically, the contents of afpd's directory
>tree. As a matter of fact, you could get around some of its other
>short-comings this way as well, e.g. no support for file names > 31
>characters.
IMHO this would lead to some of new problems. The main problem is the
single file in the root directory. An aproach with a file in each
directory would be better.
The main reason is, that you do not have to mount the same directory,
each time. You even can mount a directory and its parent as two
different volumes on the same or on different machines. So each of
these mounts would have its own file in its own root directory, but
partly containing information about the same files. It is almost
impossible to keep thes files up to date.
Keeping them up to date also is a problem, when the same directory is
accessable by other means then afp, too. If it is mounted on a PC
using smb or directly used by UNIX processes, the files contets will
always be outdated.
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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