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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:23:57 -0400
From:      Paul Kraus <paul@kraus-haus.org>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: OT: rsync on Mac OSX
Message-ID:  <C3FA95F1-952C-49A7-B33D-1A2BE8B9202C@kraus-haus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130712185701.GA10084@neutralgood.org>
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On Jul 12, 2013, at 2:57 PM, kpneal@pobox.com wrote:

> I thought MacOS X's rsync did handle resource forks if you gave it the
> proper option. The resource fork is reported by rsync in the usual
> convention of having "._" prefixed to the filename.

My understanding was that the files named ._<foo> were plain files that =
included the metadata that makes up the resource fork. The ._ file is =
not really the resource fork, but a workaround for filesystems that do =
not support resource forks.

As such, they would be copied by rsync just fine.

Now as to the Mac OS X rsync understanding resource forks, that I cannot =
speak to, but it should be easy to test. Copy a directory from an HFS+ =
volume to a non-Mac OS X volume (NFS for example) using rsync and see if =
it creates the ._ files to go with the data.

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Paul Kraus
Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3
Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company




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