Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] current netatalk plans
From: Richard Mann (rich@pubserv.com)
Date: Fri Mar 13 1998 - 10:43:31 EST
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, a sun wrote:
>
> i thought i'd clue people into my current plans for my patches to
> netatalk. these plans are all somewhat contingent upon available
> time. in addition, some of them are very much in the long-term view of
> things.
>
> ...
>
> 4) more preparation for long filename unicode support. a spec
> doesn't really exist yet, but i can pretty much guess some
> of the bits that need changing. the folks at apple say that
> a few of the functions will need continuations due to
> afp/asp restrictions, but that should be easy enough to
> handle.
Is there a way to prevent the Macs from creating unix-unfriendly
names? For example, my favorite nightmare example, was a folder
full of files like this:
chapter01Art...Saved!
chapter02Art...Saved!
chapter03Art...Saved?
and I think the folder itself had a name with "..." in it.
Left idle on the system, the files caused no harm. But when
a 0-level dump ran through the directory, it would usually
lock up linux with disk errors.
Probably nothing you can do, except user education, right?
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