I have several Samba (ie, Windows-style) shares on our network. The Macs on our network can finally access them under OSX, which is cool, but they litter them with all sorts of "._blahblah" files.
I need to turn this off. It is creating all these tiny files, each of which consumes 4k, which is the smallest block size on these particular Unix boxes. It starts to add up on shares with 80,000 files on them (they could consume 328MB!).
What's odd is that the Macs obviously don't need these strange files at all. They work just fine on shares without write permissions (and thus, without the ability to create the "._" mess). I'm not sure why they don't come from the factory as good network citizens and have this stuff off by default on non-Mac shares...
-todd-
I need to turn this off. It is creating all these tiny files, each of which consumes 4k, which is the smallest block size on these particular Unix boxes. It starts to add up on shares with 80,000 files on them (they could consume 328MB!).
What's odd is that the Macs obviously don't need these strange files at all. They work just fine on shares without write permissions (and thus, without the ability to create the "._" mess). I'm not sure why they don't come from the factory as good network citizens and have this stuff off by default on non-Mac shares...
-todd-