Re: nfs and resource forks
Re: nfs and resource forks
- Subject: Re: nfs and resource forks
- From: Dan Shoop <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:42:33 -0500
On Feb 25, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Thomas Fritzm wrote:
> I have a problem with macosx 10.6 and nfs. My home folder is located on a nfs server.
> After rebooting the computer I can save each file just once. If I try to save it again I get the message "file X cannot be saved".
That's not a error message from `cp` or `ditto`, how ware you "saving" the file? Did you try saving it with other utilities too?
> I have done some Google investigations and it seems to be a problem with resource forks and "._"-
> files since nfs doesn't support macosx resource forks.
It doesn't need to support resource forks. Mac OS X writes resource forks and extended attributes as separate files, as you allude to, with the fork/attributes in a separate file. So effectively the forks are saved.
> In one mailing list someone mentioned a workaround
> for this problem but unfortunally he didn't remember.
>
> Does anyone of you know a solution for this annoying problem ?
Let's take a step back here and look at the woolliness of the logic.
You have some symptom. You search on Google. You hear about some issue someone else is having. There's no relationship suggested or proven between your symptom and the other problem. You're vague, foggy and guilty of misunderstanding of how forks work -- something that may or may not even be involved with your issue -- and then are asking if there's a work around to something you don't even describe? I'm sorry, but a potential solution that fits is that you slaughter a goat to the ghods and see if that helps.
Why not instead try to troubleshoot and diagnose what the actual issue you're having actually is, provide some evidence, and report that back what the actual issue is. Then maybe, if it wasn't obvious to you already, that
But right now you're grasping wildly at straws and making false statements about how forks operate, without showing that you're actually having a problem with forks anyway.
Bottom line is that forks work just file across filesystems that don't support them, yoru Mac just "does the right thing".
-d
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