Re: Resource fork on UFS
Re: Resource fork on UFS
- Subject: Re: Resource fork on UFS
- From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:11:23 -0700
On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 02:06 PM, Tim Hewett wrote:
Not strictly Cocoa as such but I am looking for information on the
spec of how HFS+ resource fork information gets stored on non-HFS+
volumes, e.g. UFS. I'm aware that the resource fork info gets put in
a hidden UFS file with the same name as the main data fork file but
with "._" prepended to the name, but it's the format of the contents
I am interested in. The UFS resource fork files are consistently
slightly larger than the HFS+ fork and a binary comparison
between them fails right at the start - the UFS version seems to
have about 80 extra bytes at the start.
Those 80 extra bytes are for storing HFS metadata (things like the file
type, file creator, Finder flags, etc.), which is not stored in the
files' resource forks on HFS disks.
Nick Zitzmann
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