On Wed 25 Oct 2006, Bernd Haug wrote:
> Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > Macs use a different kind of file system ( "HFS" ) with "data" and
> > "resource" forks for each file.
>
> I know, and I wanted to state something to this effect in the mail,
> but forgot. Thanks for reminding me.
>
> > These do not have unix kinds of
> > permissions and mod dates
>
> Well, AFAIK they do. Obviously not the same on-disk format bit by
I think Keith meant the resource forks...
> bit, but
I think Keith meant the resource forks...
> > , and don't keep their associations when
> > transferred to different file systems.
>
> What kind of associations do you mean? Date and contents stay the
> same; and inode isn't the same (or rather, may or may not be the
> same) on any Unix.
Again, the resource forks...
> I don't care so much about resource forks; I want the data to be
> correct and in incremental backups; the Mac-specific Metadata isn't
> important to me.
A workaround may be to replace the OS/X rsync by a "generic" rsync that
ignores the resource forks in that case. Rename the supplied rsync to
iRsync or so :-)
> BTW, to reiterate: There are Macs on both ends (basically, there is
> only one end; local disk), and I've tried local transport too, which
> breaks in the same way, only faster.
Ah.
Perhaps some special option needs to be passed to rsync to transfer the
resource forks then? I've heard of -E , but I'm not sure. Add that to
the dirvish rsync options via:
rsync-option:
-E
in your master.conf.
Paul Slootman
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