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authorVijay Bellur <vijay@gluster.com>2012-04-09 23:11:52 +0530
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Change-Id: I0ceba9a993e8b1cdef4ff6a784bfd69c08107d88 BUG: 811311 Signed-off-by: Vijay Bellur <vijay@gluster.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.com/3116 Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com> Reviewed-by: Amar Tumballi <amarts@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com>
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-This document is intended to briefly explain how the Extended Attributes on
-Darwin 10.5.x releases works
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-
-On Darwin other than all the normal filesystem operations, 'Finder' (like
-Explorer in Windows but a little more) keeps its information in two extended
-attributes named 'com.apple.FinderInfo' and 'com.apple.ResourceFork'. If these
-xattrs are not implemented the filesystem won't be shown on Finder, and if they
-are not implemented properly there may be issues when some of the file operations
-are done through GUI of Finder. But when a filesystem is used over mountpoint in a
-terminal, everything is fine and these xattrs are not required.
-
-Currently the way these xattrs are implemented is simple. All the xattr calls
-(getxattr, setxattr, listxattr, removexattr) are passed down to underlaying filesystem,
-most of the cases when exported FS is on MacOS X itself, these keys are supported, hence
-the fops succeed. But in the case of using exports of different OS on Darwin the issue is
-extended attribute prefix like 'com.apple.' may not be supported, hence the problem with
-Finder. To solve this issue, GlusterFS returns virtual default values to these keys, which
-works fine on most of the cases.
-