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2012 Jan 01
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Interoperability with MAC OSX clients, resource forks, xattrs
...os since OSX. Netatalk saves the resource fork created by MAC clients as files into a .AppleDouble subdirectory. When connecting via CIFS, OSX uses other ways to save the resource fork. The current server is now a mixture of .AppleDouble directories and dot-underscore-files. I've tested the vfs_streams_xattr module. If alternate data streams are available, OSX saves the resource fork into a stream that is converted to an extended attribute by this module. Doesn't work - even though the share is on XFS that allows 64k per extended attribute, some resource forks are larger and cannot be sa...