[Novalug] Infrant NAS & Mac OSX link/unlink

Wayne Dernoncourt wayned@panix.com
Sun Nov 24 18:25:36 EST 2013


Gee, I don't know, I wouldn't be surprised since  ln -s worked and the alias command didn't.  Okay, maybe "ln -s worked" isn't quite right since I can't delete the sym link...  I'm pretty sure that if I ask Apple what the problem is they will say it's Netgear's problem and vice versa.

This clown speaks for himself

> On Nov 24, 2013, at 3:36 PM, Mark Smith <mark@winksmith.com> wrote:
> 
> isn't MAC's idea of an "alias" different than what is available on
> ext2/3/4/nfs/etc?  the good news is that symlinks is by macosx.
> 
>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:49:51AM -0500, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
>> I have an Infrant (now Netgear) NAS.  I copied some files to it and some if those files needed to have links to other directories.  The Mac OS has a function that will create an alias - except that seems to have stopped working, well not quite it creates the link but it doesn't actually work.  The link is large (200k?) and it doesn't actually open the file.  If I use the same function on a spinning drive, it works fine.  If I drop down to the command line and use ln -s /src/dir/file /dest/dir/part (or whatever) creates the link - yeah!
>> 
>> But if I make a typo (?never?) - it seems like I can't get rid of the link.  If I use rm or rm -f, I don't get an error but the link doesn't go anywhere, same thing with unlink.  If I use the Mac OSX GUI to drag the link to the trash, it disappears and a second later it's back.
>> 
>> I can't figure out what is going on.  Does anyone have a clue?
> 
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