[Samba] Migration to vfs_fruit with existing AppleDouble files?

Ralph Boehme slow at samba.org
Wed Apr 27 20:49:22 UTC 2016


On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:50:12AM -0700, Scott Call wrote:
> (apologies to Ralph, I replied directly to him w/o copying the lists, so
> here we go again)
> 
> 
> In my testing that wasn't the case.  If I manually copy the apple generated
> AppleDouble file and it's 0 byte main file to my test system,  the correct
> size (including the resource forks) are shown but the file type is not
> translated.
> 
> Using "GetFileInfo" a file copied to the new (vfs_fruit) server using
> finder will show:
> type: "tfil"
> creator: "movr"
> 
> but the same file with the AppleDouble copied at the unix level (scp)  from
> the old server shows:
> type: "\0\0\0\0"
> creator: "\0\0\0\0"
> 
> So I think the missing piece is com.apple.FinderInfo xattr?

hm, not sure if I convert FinderInfo from OS X AppleDouble to
vfs_fruit native (depending on fruit:metadata setting either
user.org.netatalk.metadata or iirc user.streams.AFP_FinderInfo). I
thought I added the code, but I'd have to check.

Cheerio!
-slow



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