On Tuesday, Sep 17, 2002, at 15:31 US/Eastern, Kevin Crowston wrote:
> I have a feature request for rsync. I tried posting it to the
> FAQ-o-matic, but that system didn't seem to be accepting new
> questions. I hope this is an okay list for the request--apologies if
> it's misdirected.
>
> Mac OS X provides support for the Mac file system resource forks and
> mac specific metadata (e.g., creator and file type). Most Unix
> applications ignore this information, but it is accessible. It would
> be great if rsync between two Mac OS X machines could sync this
> information as well as the usual Unix file contents and unix metadata.
>
> I plan to take a look at the source, but I don't have high hopes of
> being able to create a robust patch. Hopefully this will be easy for
> someone who knows Mac OS X.
It's already done: http://www.macosxlabs.org/rsyncx/rsyncx.html
The underlying CLI tool is an HFS+ resource aware version of rsync
2.5.5.
I've asked this before on this list, and never received a response...
what are the barriers to getting this support added to the main rsync
tree as part of the MacOS X configuration? Having this in the maintree
would be highly useful to MacOS X users, instead of having to have to
continually patch the rsync tree with the HFS+ patch.
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