Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] NFS/SMB/Appleshare on the same file system
From: Sak Wathanasin (sw@nan.co.uk)
Date: Sun Jul 13 1997 - 18:37:22 EDT
In reply to Michael Stone's message of the 13/07/97 at 17:12 -0400,
> Hmm. So, how do the macs figure out the file type and creator for
> files created by non-macs?
They don't: netatalk uses a heuristic based on any suffices there may be in the
filename (remember that list in the AppleVolumes.system file?) Such a list is,
by definition, incomplete and somewhat arbitrary. For example, text files can
be created by any one of several aapls on the Mac. If you throw away the Finder
info, and you simply use the suffix (.txt, say), there is no way of deducing
which Mac appl actually created the file.
It all depends on whether your Mac users see the netatalk volume as a
convenient way of sharing files with their Unix/Window colleagues or whether
they see it as a true repository for Mac files in which case they'd expect all
info about their files to be kept.
> pleasing for non-mac users, but it cause other problems, e.g.,
> when one of the non-mac users tries to delete a directory tree
> with hidden appledouble directories.
What problems would that be? If you're going to nuke the directory, what does
it matter what was in it before?
Sak Wathanasin
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