[Samba] Migration to vfs_fruit with existing AppleDouble files?

Scott Call scott.call at gmail.com
Tue May 3 19:51:54 UTC 2016


If the code to convert FinderInfo is in a version later than 4.3.6 then I
can request FreeNAS update their version.

Can you let me know?

Thanks!
-Scott

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org> wrote:

> 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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