Daniel Markstedt

Enjoy your hike! I'll go ahead and merge then, and we can roll another patch later if needed.

The complexity / fragility argument I definitely buy. It's a lot of scaffolding for this one feature. I wonder though if the metadata search can be tweaked to make it...

> I think you are underselling how easy Netatalk makes it :) Thanks to all the hard work by the Netatalk contributors, getting the MySQL backend working is simple. Impressive...

I am frankly an amateur myself but am of course offering to assist to the best of my ability. In fact, I would say that the last 3 years of...

To make it easier to find, I created a wiki page with a slightly modified version of the setup guide above. https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/wiki/MySQL-CNID-Backend @andylemin I hope you didn't mind. :)

@ssokolow I appreciate all the know-how and research you're sharing in this thread. If I could ask you one favor: Please keep a positive and constructive tone in your messages....

No worries; thanks for being open to constructive criticism. :) Doing any kind of substantive change to this C codebase is absolutely terrifying for all of us, with 0% unit...

> Originally, afpd supported multiple "virtual" servers and multiple protocols using an AFPConfig struct for each server and protocol that wrapped around an AFPObj struct. When AppleTalk was removed, the...

Handled in https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/pull/1435

Hmm, the issue went away after I messed with apt to uninstall/reinstall/upgrade packages. FWIW this is a different Debian system from the one where https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/1170 is happening (which it still...