Subject: Re: netatalk compatible utilities
From: mbartosh@heretic.mabaleb.org
Date: Mon Mar 05 2001 - 03:30:48 EST
You are confusing Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server (based on Mach 2.5) and Mac OS
X Server 2.0.
Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server 2.0 boot and root from either UFS or HFS+.
Most of its behaviors are quite standard.
-mab
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Niall O Broin wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:49:32AM -0500, Rob Lineweaver wrote:
>
>> > A thought has just occured to me - how has Apple handled this with MacOS
>> > X ? I presume they've built a filesystem with integrated metadata.
>>
>> That's exactly what they did, it's just that Apple built that
>> filesystem long ago: regular old HFS+ is what OS X uses for files that
>> need the resource forks. At least this is how I understand it on the
>> couple of OS X servers I've looked at. OS X itself goes on a UFS
>> partition but the AFS serves files off of HFS+.
>
>This is bizarre. It seems that OS X is like two operating systems running as
>multi-tasking processes on the same machine. What would you do if you wanted
>to use command line utilities to manipulate files on HFS+ partitions ? OS X
>beta testers - what does the cp command do if you cp a file on a HFS+
>partition a) to a HFS+ partition b) to a UFS partition ?
>
>> You can even rebuild the desktop database of the HFS+ partition(s) on an
>> OS X server by booting the box off a Mac OS 8.x or 9.x CD and holding
>> down Apple-Option...
>> (http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n60401)
>
>Jeez - that's bizarre - regular maintenance of an OS X server so requires
>rebooting the machine - welcome to Windows NT :-)
>
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>Regards,
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>Niall O Broin
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