site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com At 4:49 PM -0700 2001-04-26, Byron Han wrote:

Subject: Re: Resource Forks aware rsync? (fwd)

as a matter of fact we DO need a new file format since AppleSingle is limited to <2GB file sizes...

Well? Is there a new format yet? http://developer.apple.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?&q=applesingle doesn't illuminate even the old format. And while we're at it: is there documentation somewhere as to the format of a ._ file, as referred to here: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/SystemOverview/Fi... and is there an official name for these ._ files? Are they simply the other half of appledouble? I'm putting together a spec for an extended rsync, which I will float here. I wonder if the Tiger rsync will satisfy it. Thanks Dave

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Peter Bierman wrote:

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At 10:55 AM -0400 4/26/01, James E. Quick wrote:

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I am working on a tar port right now.

So far it looks like a small amount of information will be sufficient. The whole FInfo+FXInfo (or DInfo + DXInfo structures) along with backup and creation times. If anyone else knows of other structures which are relevant, please drop a note.

Please don't invent yet another Macintosh file+metadata encoding method.

AppleSingle properly encodes the data fork, resource fork, and all of the metadata, both currently used fields and reserved fields. If you use AppleSingle instead of inventing your own encoding, then you'll know that your files will continue to work even if Apple starts using metadata you weren't saving.

Besides, the world doesn't need yet another file format.

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