Subject: Re: Samba and Netatalk
From: Seanano (sto9013@ksu.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 07 2001 - 14:07:06 EST
> Here's a question... is this issue resolved if using an HFS volume to
> do the file sharing? As HFS doesn't allow filenames longer than 32
> chars, users just plain wouldn't be able to create them in the first
> place, correct? This also helps with some issues with Mac aliases
> getting confused, etc. AFAIK. I know there are limitations to HFS
> with regards to volume and file size and how efficiently the disk is
> used with larger volumes, but for smaller shares this could be a
> solution.
IMHO, I would think the lack of file permissions with HFS wouldn't make
this very useful for anything other than read only (which wouldn't have
the problem anyway since nothing could be changed) or single user shares.
Sean
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