[12178] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.6G: AFS bug with 8-bit filenames
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reid M. Pinchback)
Thu Jun 30 10:03:28 1994
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 94 10:03:20 EDT
From: "Reid M. Pinchback" <reidmp@MIT.EDU>
System name: whirlwind
Type and version: KN02ca 7.6G (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: PMAG-DV
What were you trying to do?
When using a Mac emulator (MAE) that creates 8-bit filenames,
I found that such filenames could be created on the local
disk of a Sun workstation, but not in AFS.
What's wrong:
AFS doesn't (yet) support 8-bit filenames.
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What should have happened:
AFS should support 8-bit filenames. Apparently Transarc knows
about the problem. I'm reporting this so that our AFS gurus
also know about it.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
I had reported this problem to an MAE-related mailing list,
because originally I thought the problem was in MAE. I
received the following email back from the Transarc product
manager:
!Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 09:50:27 -0400 (EDT)
!From: Joseph_Jackson@transarc.com
!To: mae-users@medraut.apple.com, reidmp@MIT.EDU
!Subject: Re: Extremely gross filenames
!In-Reply-To: <9406271631.AA15148@whirlwind.MIT.EDU>
!References: <9406271631.AA15148@whirlwind.MIT.EDU>
!
!In a future release of AFS, the restriction on "funny" characters in
!filenames will be removed. The AFS defect number associated with this
!issue is #5244. The fix will definitely be in the AFS 3.4 release,
!but didn't make it into the AFS 3.3a release. For more info, have
!your AFS administrator (site contact) get in touch with AFS Product
!Support.
!
!Joe Jackson,
!AFS Product Engineer,
!Transarc Corp.
!
!"Reid M. Pinchback" <reidmp@mit.edu> writes:
!> Mostly I've been pretty impressed with MAE, particularly considering
!> that it is a version 1.0 product, but I must say that one aspect of it
!> is rather gross. On the Unix side of things, the filenames use some
!> very strange characters. When working on a local Sun filesystem this
!> doesn't seem to cause a problem, but so far I'm finding that I can't
!> create such filenames in AFS, thus 'tar' or 'cp' can't be used to copy
!> files off of the local workstation. I'm not sure if this should be
!> attributed to an generic AFS bug, or a configuration problem in our
!> local implementation of AFS, or to MAE. However, I'd like to propose
!> a possible solution that you might want to allow as an MAE
!> command-line option.
