John R Pierce wrote:
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.
Offhand, I'd try NFS rather than CIFS. Wild guess says the NAS box
stores the Macintosh 'resource forks' in alternate files, using some
funky naming convention, and likely masks this from "windows" systems
connecting via SMB/CIFS. its extremely unlikely its using HFS as
the internal storage, much more likely its e3fs or similar. If you
pulled the drives from the NAS box and direct connected them to a
linux box, you could probably figure out what they were doing by
poking around, assuming you could hook up to the raid structure (some
of those boxes use proprietary raid extensions, like ReadyNAS with its
'raid-x' expandable/restripable raid.
How would the Linux box see anything different if mounted NFS? I agree
that CIFS is probably just emulating Windows, so I understand that part.
I'll have to research the e3fs stuff as I'm not familiar with all of
that also. This is the kind of problem that really just humbles me so much.
Thanks,
Steve
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