HFS+ resource forks: WIP patch included
Gregory Brauer
greg at wildbrain.com
Wed Mar 10 20:06:20 GMT 2004
I use rsync to distribute files from a non-OS X server to
OS X clients. I think using ._ files would clearly be the
best solution for the non-OS X side if you can get the
sorting issue worked out. That way the files on the non-HFS+
side of the rsync could be accessed directly by the Mac if
mounted via SMB or NFS.
I also wanted to share a little known tool I found through
Googling that is the hack I use to make rsync work for me
currently. "FixupResourceForks" pushes metadata and resource
forks stored in ._ files back into the filesystem. For the
record, this is how I currently use rsync to copy files
between OS X machines:
1. Use the Finder (or CpMac, or other utils) to copy my data
from an HFS partition to a UFS or NFS partition on a server.
2. Use rsync to copy the files from the non-HFS+ partition to
an HFS+ partition on a Mac
3. On the client OS X machine, run
/System/Library/CoreServices/FixupResourceForks on the
root of the synced tree on the HFS+ partition.
The disadvantage to this method is that all resource forks
and metadata (all ._ files) are re-synced every time rsync
runs because FixupResourceForks deletes the ._ files in
the process of pushing the data into the filesystem, but
this is fortunately a small amount of data for me.
Hope this helps someone until the *real* rsync solution is
developed. (I *do* need type/creator/icon information, so
this patch wouldn't work for me just yet.)
Greg
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