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this trick helps archive management on dumb file servers
This is just the fix I need.
I archive old files in disk images on a CIFS network disk. This works pretty well, despite the weaknesses of CIFS, since the Apple file system details are inside the disk images. But my file server (low-end Buffalo) does not allow me to lock the files. So one thing that has not worked well is the fact that whenever I open an archived disk image, Finder writes back pages to the network disk, as it makes trivial updates to .DS_Store files in the disk image. (Even worse, Microsoft Word likes to scribble on folders even if you are just looking.) Making random updates is not a good way to treat one's archives! With the shadow-file mounting technique, when I browse archived images, the silly updates are posted to /tmp, and can be discarded properly. As a side benefit, there are fewer handshakes with the file server, so browsing and searching are faster. I made a Finder plugin in Automator to put this mounting technique on the right button everywhere. (I only wish there were a way to get this behavior from a plain double click.) Here is the relevant shell code for the Automator action:
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