Subject: Re: disabling creation of .AppleDouble, etc.?
From: Georg Schwarz (schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de)
Date: Mon Jun 30 1997 - 04:37:38 EDT
> > Is it possible to compile Netatalk 1.4b2 so that it never creates
> > .AppleDouble, .AppleDesktop directories? It looks like it could do
> > without (e.g. on non writable directories).
>
> Why do that? If you'll write any File from Macs over Netatalk, Mac Flags
> and other stuff must be written.
what if I only want to write the data fork?
I know that I would loose the resource fork as well as some information on the
file.
>
> > Also, is there a way to tell Netatalk that a particular file system is
> > mounted r/o on Linux and it thus should not bother trying to write
> > anything to it (although from only looking at the permissions Netatalk
> > this it could write)?
>
> If you mount a CD-ROM or similar RO, FileFlags should never include write
> permissions and netatalk won't write anything.
well, you can have some partitions mountet r/o with permissions of the
directories still being 777 or whatever.
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