Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Okay, what _are_ persistent DIDs
From: Michael M Han (han@windy.ckm.ucsf.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 14 1998 - 12:29:27 EDT
Oops, sorry about that. Directory IDs are an inode-ish unique number
assigned to each directory on a Macintosh volume. The are complemented
by FNUMs (File Numbers?) for files. Anyway, netatalk currently has
some trouble with DIDs, which causes odd problems with volumes shared
by afpd.
Essentially, a Macintosh requires that DIDs be permanent, but due to
various problems with providing them in netatalk, they aren't
permanent (the way the numbers are assigned has very important
differences from inode numbers assigned on Unix filesystems). As a
result, Mac software that's looking for things on afpd volumes
sometimes can't find what it's looking for. It's looking for a DID it
expects hasn't changed, but afpd *has* changed the DIDs. There are
better (and maybe more accurate) explanations of the situation in the
list archives and maybe in an FAQ.
Previously...
>At 01:12 PM 4/13/98 -0700, Michael M Han wrote:
>>Okay, persistent DIDs have become *very* desirable to me and I'm
>
>*Unknown Acronym Alert!!* Can someone tell em what a persistent DID is?
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