Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] alias test
From: Tom Kunz (tkunz@nscs.fast.net)
Date: Mon Nov 22 1999 - 15:39:48 EST
Oh, please please please please continue work on making persistent
DID's! I (well, my company, not me) really needs that desperately, and
as quickly as possible. We keep hitting things were netatalk "isn't
quite the same as MacOS" with those DID's. It would make life an order
of magnitude more enjoyable. Is this limited by the lack of file
locking for ext2, or are you waiting on some other separate db support?
(we might be able to fool around with the lock stuff from GFS, if it's a
lock manager you need)
Thanks,
Tom
a sun wrote:
>
> I thought my alias problems were gone with the 2.1.3 release.
>
> i guess i should step in here and clarify the issue. aliases will get
> confused with mac oses that are pre-8.6. that's because netatalk
> doesn't currently have a notion of a permanent directory/file id. the
> mac os alias manager happens to use that to shortcut aliases. in 8.6,
> the alias manager will actually resolve the pathname that's also
> stored in the alias file, so aliases will work if you don't already
> have a file/directory id dynamically allocated to it. unfortunately,
> if you do, things get confused again.
>
> oh yeah, there's some preliminary work in my current development
> snapshot for persistent file/directory id support. however, i decided
> to hold off on that for the full-blown db support that netatalk
> needs.
>
> does that clarify things?
>
> -a
>
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