[Netatalk-devel] Re: Problem using appletalk with MacOS X to a scsi hd with XFS.

[Harald W. <hwa...@ha...>]

Am Freitag, 21.02.03 um 14:27 Uhr schrieb Alexey Kotovich:

> Hi there;
>
> I have the same experience some time ago.
> I wrote a patch for netatalk-1.5.0/3 that can help you to workaround 
> problem.
> If my memory doesn't fail me the issue is as follows (as short as 
> possible):
>
> AFP uses unique file number for internal needs which is two bytes of 
> length.
> Netatalk does something like this ((st->st_dev << 16) | (st->st_ino & 
> 0x0000ffff))
> to get such a number. I'd like to mention that it must be unique per 
> request only.
> As xfs has 64bits inode number and it has inconsequent order, 
> sometimes we get
> the same file numbers in the same request that causes "error -50" on 
> MacOS.
>
> kind regards,
> Alexey Kotovich                         ICQ:97715595

Is this still true with cnid (netatalk 1.6.0)? Or does cnid decouple 
did from file inode information? If no, could it be made into doing so?

Regards,
     Harald



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