samba and netatalk

[Eric Richardson]

Craig White wrote:
> 
> I neglected to mention...
> <http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/>
> 
> sign up for the mail list - within days you will get an idea of the problems
> with netatalk and with the combo of netatalk/samba - there are many - too
> many to detail here but by far the biggest problem is file locking. Unix
> locks 'in use' files differently from Windows and differently from Macintosh
> HFS. It is entirely possible to open the same file at the same time with all
> three OS's and I shouldn't have to tell you how this is the recipe for
> cooking up a major helping of disaster.

This goes to show that a read/write file needs to be managed by a
version control system, not an operating system file system.
Eric :-)