On May 23, 2010, at 4:29 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
> On 05/21/2010 7:59 PM, john gale wrote:
>> % /sw/bootstrap/bin/dpkg -L base-files
>> /._.
>
> ALL the files in the package have a dot_underscore companion. I didn't
> see that at first and thought that maybe it was some preexisting
> condition on your HD, but it seems to be an issue with the bootstrap
> process and deb creation instead. Do you have 2 hard drives, or are
> using File Vault, or anything that could be creating a volume that the
> system is thinking is not HFS+? Or have you installed a non-system
> utility like tar, fileutils, or similar?
>
> Out of curiosity, what is the size of /._. and what does 'file /._.' say?
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root admin 491 May 21 16:57:20 2010 ._.
% cat ._.
Mac OS X 2??ATTR?U??S?Scom.apple.acl.text!#acl 1
user:72247D1E-7867-4783-B97F-5A533167BFF9:john:505:allow,inherited,file_inherit,directory_inherit:read,write,execute,append,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,chown
user:FFFFEEEE-DDDD-CCCC-BBBB-AAAA00000059:_spotlight:89:allow,inherited,file_inherit,directory_inherit:read,execute
I do have several drives, but no filevault, nor anything else that should be
messing with the FS statistics.
It looks like the contents of the /._. file is a text representation of the ACL
that is also on /._. and to some degree on / as well.
Is there some part of the installation process that is attempting to write ACLs
to the various folders? It seems to be not writing the ACLs correctly, and
instead storing them all in ._ files.
~ john
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