Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] CD Server
From: Patrik Schindler (poc@pocnet.net)
Date: Tue Jun 29 1999 - 12:42:29 EDT
At 9:58 Uhr +0100 29.06.1999, nobroin@esoc.esa.de wrote:
> In a recent message to the netatalk list, you gave this example
>
>mount -t hfs -o ro,loop,fork=netatalk Imagefilename /mountpoint
>
>and I am puzzled - what is the fork=netatalk option to mount ?
This is for hfs-volumes which use the hfs_fs kernel module for mounting.
It is available separately or you find it in the recent 2.2 kernels.
Fork=netatalk tells the module to export the Mac-Resources netatalk-compatible.
>From /usr/src/linux/fs/hfs/HFS.txt:
2.5. fork={cap, double, netatalk}
default value: cap
This option determines how resource forks and the Finder's metadata
are represented within the structure of the Linux filesystem.
cap
The scheme used by the Columbia AppleTalk Package's AUFS.
[some lengthy explanations removed]
double
The ``AppleDouble'' format recommended by Apple. (Apple's other
recommended format, ``AppleSingle'', is not yet implemented.)
[some lengthy explanations removed]
netatalk
The scheme used by the Netatalk afpd.
[some lengthy explanations removed]
>I use
>Netatalk, though never with loopback mounted CD images like this, and I
>haven't mounted hfs volumes under Linux either,
So you never got in need of this :-)
>but I can't find any
>mention of this option to mount in the mount man page. Can you enlighten
>me, please ?
Perhaps the mount-manpage isn't up to date with the recent kernels.
>Can you enlighten
>me, please ?
I hope, I could help you out.
:wq! PoC
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