Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] NFS/SMB/Appleshare on the same file system
From: Michael Stone (mstone@itri.loyola.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 13 1997 - 20:03:17 EDT
Quoting Sak Wathanasin (sw@nan.co.uk):
> 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.
Exactly. It all depends on the application.
> > 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?
The unix host won't delete a non-empty directory, even if it looks
empty because the files in it are hidden.
-- Michael Stone, Sysadmin, ITRI mstone@itri.loyola.edu PGP: finger, or email with "Subject: get pgp key"
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