[Samba] move from netatalk to samba + vfsfruit

Ralph Böhme slow at samba.org
Thu May 17 12:22:37 UTC 2018


On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 12:51:14PM +0200, Reindl Harald via samba wrote:
> hell, what is the way to go switch all clients using samba without lose
> data like old fonts which have important data in the resource fork
> *without* create a new share and copy all data from a Apple client
> around what takes ages, changes fileowner and is difficult when the
> admin is a Linux user with no Apple machine and the daily work should
> not get blocked for hours?

iirc the only thing that is currently not working is cross-protocol xattrs for
xattrs created via Netatalk without ea=samba. I have a WIP patch for Samba here
[1], but that would require a *lot* more thinking, hacking and testing.

-slow

[1] https://git.samba.org/?p=slow/samba.git;a=commitdiff;h=4f6a557b0ad13adfb50fa67af2217a674fd1159f

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