Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of SftpFrontend

Timestamp:

2010-05-28T22:58:56Z (14 years ago)

Author:

davidsarah

Comment:

extended attribute files

SftpFrontend

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 === sshfs ===
 
-sshfs is an SFTP client that allows filesystem access via FUSE (a user-space filesystem layer). It works on Linux and other Unix systems that provide FUSE. For MAC OS X, a patched version of sshfs is included as part of MacFUSE.
+sshfs is an SFTP client that allows filesystem access via FUSE (a user-space filesystem layer). It works on Linux and other Unix systems that provide FUSE. For Mac OS X, a patched version of sshfs is included as part of MacFUSE.
 
 Tahoe's SFTP frontend includes several workarounds and extensions to make it function correctly with sshfs.
 
-sshfs does not wait for 'close' requests to complete before reporting to the application that a file has been successfully closed (#1059). Therefore, you should not shut down your gateway node immediately after writing files via sshfs, otherwise those files may be lost. It is possible that an upload could fail (due to a network error, lack of storage space, etc.); such failures will not be reported to applications using sshfs. ([http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/raw-attachment/wiki/SftpFrontend/sshfs.c.patch This patch] makes sshfs wait for close requests to complete, but may cause its own compatibility problems; the patch is provided only for testing purposes.)
+When writing a file to the Tahoe filesystem, sshfs does not wait for the 'close' request to complete before reporting to the application that the file has been successfully closed (#1059). Therefore, you should not shut down your gateway node immediately after writing files via sshfs, otherwise those files may be lost. It is possible that an upload could fail (due to a network error, lack of storage space, etc.); such failures will not be reported to applications using sshfs. ([http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/raw-attachment/wiki/SftpFrontend/sshfs.c.patch This patch] makes sshfs wait for close requests to complete, but may cause its own compatibility problems; the patch is provided only for testing purposes.)
 
 Some applications may make assumptions that are incompatible with Tahoe. For example, 'flushing' a file does not guarantee that written data is reflected in the Tahoe filesystem, so opening the same file via another handle and attempting to read that data will not work.
 
+The MacFUSE version of sshfs stores "extended attributes" in files with names starting with "{{{._}}}". For example the attributes for "{{{foo.txt}}}" would be stored in a file called "{{{._foo.txt}}}". Since some Mac OS X applications may depend on these attributes (especially for their own file formats), if you need to copy or move the original file then you should copy or move the attribute file along with it. Note that filenames beginning with "{{{.}}}" are not listed by default by {{{ls}}}.
 
 === Gnome virtual filesystem (gvfs) ===