Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] AS IP speeds
From: Robert B. Bell (rbell@tv.fu.hac.com)
Date: Thu Jan 07 1999 - 20:21:54 EST
At 12:20 PM 1/7/99 -0600, Mark Donnelly wrote:
[snip]
>Ah, here's where the real culprit shows its face, I suspect. The
>difference is that UNIX filesystems don't really support Macintosh files.
>They have no concept of 'forks' or 'resources.' So, an artificial
>structure had to be put in place to simulate the resource fork. So,
>there's more done automagically by MacOS than UNIX.
[snip]
>The end result is that the UNIX filesystems can't handle Macintosh files
>without some juggling, which is always going to result in loss of speed.
[snip]
For a Linux box,
is there a better filesystem to used for netatalk
than the standard linux ext2?
Thanks,
Robert Bell.
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