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by **Stephen Costar** » Wed, 26 Jun 1996 04:00:00

I have a split lan between several Macs (powermacs) and Linux
systems. I have files that are needed by both platforms. Currently
I have a Mac that is running as a fileshare machine which works
great for the Macs on the lan, but not for Linux. (problems
mounting appletalk volumes read/write etc).

I was thinking about moving the raid array over to a Linux box
and then run macNFS on my macs (to mount NFS volumes on the mac)
BUT I have a concern with the Mac files. Can Linux handle the
data/resource forks of Mac files? Is this evena problem? Say I
have one logical volume that is an application volume (has all
the programs on it for the mac) can I easily RUN those programs
even though they are on an NFS volume? (nothing will get corrupted?)

Any insights would be helpful.

Stephen

by **Allan 'Norm' Cra** » Mon, 01 Jul 1996 04:00:00

>I was thinking about moving the raid array over to a Linux box
>and then run macNFS on my macs (to mount NFS volumes on the mac)
>BUT I have a concern with the Mac files. Can Linux handle the
>data/resource forks of Mac files? Is this evena problem? Say I
>have one logical volume that is an application volume (has all
>the programs on it for the mac) can I easily RUN those programs
>even though they are on an NFS volume? (nothing will get corrupted?)

Another idea, if you're moving the disks to Linux systems, is to set up
the Linux system as an AppleTalk server. It's surprisingly easy with Linux
kernel 2.0, which has AppleTalk ddp built in. I currently store all of my
files from my mac on my larger Linux hard drive (80M in the Mac vs 850M in
the Linux machine). It works very well and the Mac files all stay nicely
intact in the hostile enviroment of an ext2 formatted IDE disk. :)

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by **nexu** » Thu, 04 Jul 1996 04:00:00

>>I was thinking about moving the raid array over to a Linux box
>>and then run macNFS on my macs (to mount NFS volumes on the mac)
>Another idea, if you're moving the disks to Linux systems, is to set up
>the Linux system as an AppleTalk server. It's surprisingly easy with Linux
>kernel 2.0, which has AppleTalk ddp built in. I currently store all of my
>files from my mac on my larger Linux hard drive (80M in the Mac vs 850M in
>the Linux machine). It works very well and the Mac files all stay nicely
>intact in the hostile enviroment of an ext2 formatted IDE disk. :)

Stay nicely intact .. unless you run out of disk space and run the server
as root; The resource forks wont be written to file, and the afp daemon
freaks out, leaving the filehandle on that empty (0 length) resource
fork open. Soon enough,NR_OPEN is reached, too many open files, and
you have a problem.

... it could happen.

Cees

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