Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Okay, what _are_ persistent DIDs
From: Edan Idzerda (edan@mtu.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 14 1998 - 15:49:45 EDT
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Michael M Han wrote:
> 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.
I believe that Netatalk makes up DIDs that are only consistent
during each session. So, it doesn't really have trouble with them,
it just gives you trouble if you expect your alias to last between
sessions :)
I think that CAP uses some extra process to manage them. I believe
that DIDs have been discussed on this list before, with no resolution
that I can remember. If it were easier to search the netatalk-admin
archives I'm sure one could find it.
So yeah, persistent DIDs would be a nice thing, but it's going to take
a very motivated individual outside of umich to get it done anytime
soon, as I don't believe its a priority for them.
- edan
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