OS X 10.9 Maverick

Richard Sharpe realrichardsharpe at gmail.com
Tue Jun 18 17:06:36 MDT 2013


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:38 PM, George K Colley <gcolley at apple.com> wrote:
>> I know, but I imagine things may break at subtle points, e.g. some applications and file formats still
>> use resource forks larger then what fits into an extended attribute (vfs objectt streams_xattr). I'm
>> also looking into compatibility issues on volumes that have been accessed or are accessed in parallel with Netatalk/AFP.
>>
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> If the remote server supports NTFS Name Streams then that should not be an issue, since NTFS Name
> Streams support the same size as a file. If the remote server doesn't support Name Streams then this
> data is stored in the famous and ugly dot underbar file. Which is handle by OS X.

Ahhh. This will probably break at some point with streams_xattr then.

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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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