Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata

[Paul Snively]

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Hi Robert!

On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 04:16  AM, Robert Collins wrote:

> I think you've missed the point. The resource fork is structured data,
> that arch could meaningfully interpret, diff, merge and the like. To do
> that on apple, system calls can be used. To interoperate with 
> non-mac's,
> and to store such versioned data in an arch archive (even on a mac) a
> encoding standard needs to be chosen. For that standard, a layer will
> need to exist when running on non-macs - and there are applesingle
> libraries around...
This is exactly correct: since tla, like most systems, essentially 
assumes a POSIX filesystem, the best approach seems to be to take 
advantage of a standard encoding that's been around for years, and 
continue to allow tla to assume that the filesystem is POSIX, even if 
the filesystem actually happens to be an HFS[+] filesystem. For one 
thing, this would allow an archive to continue to be moved among 
disparate filesystems without ill effect.

> Rob
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Best regards,
Paul

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