On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 14:09 -0700, 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? ---- on second thought...tar probably won't work. Every system has a different methodology for storing the resource fork (the Macintosh curse). Best to just use a Mac to copy Macintosh files and let each system create/maintain/discard resource fork info as it sees fit. Craig