some clarity Re: HFS+ resource forks: WIP patch included

[Wesley D Craig]

On 10 Mar 2004, at 13:57, Kevin Alexander Boyd wrote:
> For --eahfs, what needs to be implemented is catching extra data on
> non-HFS+ filesystems, say storing them in a standard Apple alien FS
> format. If you change the file (encode split, etc), you are altering 
> the
> source folders, which is not desirable.  You could encode the files and
> trick rsync into using applesingle files, but that would incur a space 
> and
> encode time penalty.  You could encode (or split) files into 
> appledouble
> format, which would incur less of a time and space penalty, but would
> still require additional space on the source machine.

Taking radmind as an example of a tool that understands HFS+ on Mac OS 
X and stores files in a portable format on non-Mac OS X machines, it's 
certainly possible to do this encoding "on the fly".  It ought to be 
possible to do the same with rsync.  In the best case scenario, if the 
receiving rsync was on Mac OS X, it would recognize the portable data 
and translate it back into Mac OS X-specific format.

I'd be happy to work on this myself, since I already have very similar 
code, if there was some possibility that the rsync maintainers would be 
willing to accept the modifications.  Otherwise, it seems like a waste 
of effort.

:wes