[CentOS] Making a NAS/HFS server

[Steve Campbell]

Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 15:49 -0500, Steve Campbell wrote:
>   
>> I ran into a problem that I couldn't resolve straight away, but would 
>> like to solve for sometime in the future.
>>
>> We have a Thecus storage server (similar to a Buffalo TeraByte, if that 
>> helps?) that has a Mac filesystem on it. The mother board was failing, 
>> but the drives are still OK. A new box has been added, so the urgency is 
>> sort of gone. I was going to try and back up the data to a new CentOS 
>> 5.1 box I had until the new Thecus arrived, but ran into the problem of 
>> Mac resource forks not being copied when I mounted the Thecus as a CIFS 
>> system.
>>
>> Is there a commonly used procedure to do the above task of copying a Mac 
>> (HFS, I think) system to a linux box from the linux box?
>>
>> This sort of runs into another project we have in the works where we 
>> want to make the equivalent of a SAN/NAS type storage system. We want to 
>> have a cluster of Centos boxes running for shared storage, and have the 
>> ability to add to it seamlessly. But now, I'm wondering if it won't run 
>> into the same problem with the HFS or other filesystems that may be 
>> used. I understand NAS storage sort of handles the different filesystem 
>> protocols by interface, so I wondering if anyone has a pointer to 
>> something like this also.
>>
>> Google keeps pointing me in a circle back to an old HFS+ driver that 
>> sort of stopped development in 2003. The trail ends very abruptly.
>>
>> Sorry to be so windy, but offer thanks in advance for any clues.
>>     
> ----
> If you want to be certain that you preserve the Macintosh resource
> forks, you might want to add Netatalk (http://netatalk.sourceforge.net),
> which makes it a real AFPoverTCP file server. Then you use a Macintosh
> to copy the files over.
>
> Otherwise, I would suggest that you use tar to copy the folders over
> which should preserve all of the contents.
>
> Are you sure that those are really HFS (or HFSPlus) filesystems?
>
>   

No, I'm not sure of anything on the Thecus, as I didn't have anything to 
do with it's setup or population. I was just asked to back it up. Seems 
like when it comes to doing the important stuff, they always come to the 
Linux guys.

I don't understand, though, how it could have been populated with Mac 
stuff unless it either had a Mac fs or something or the sorts. A Mac 
wrote the data, but I'm not sure what type of format the system had. I 
really don't have a clue about this or how to fix up the NAS if we ever 
get that far.

Sorry to be so dense that I can't answer your questions on the subject. 
It's all new to me. Thanks, though.

Steve
> Craig
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