[Afpfs-ng-devel] Accessing resource forks with hfsplus, netatalk and afpfs-ng

[Alex d. <ale...@gm...>]

In writing afpfs-ng, I've spent a bit of time looking at how to
represent resource forks on a unix-style filesystem.

>From what I gather, there's three open source projects that the same problem:
- netatalk, which stores them in .AppleDouble directories as appledouble files
- hfsplus, which I haven't figured out how it represents them
- afpfs-ng, which I'm trying to write correctly

I see a few reasons for trying to standardize on the format for this:

- you could potentially use netatalk to re-export a locally connected
HFS+ volume or re-export a remote AFP volume

- an extension to konqueror or nautilus so that they could look a bit
more like the Finder when looking at such filesystems

Has anyone looked at extending such a file browser to support these things?

- Alex