Net-ATalk...

It runs on nearly ANY Kernel that'll grok AFP over TCP... Include OSX, FreeBSD, Open BSD, NetBSD, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64... maybe more...

Now, they have gone to naming the Resource Fork a similar naming convention to the "._*"

But, it presents it differently, WAY differently. I get all the secondary (aka META) data and keep the contents.

Hah... run an NetATalk Daemon on your OSX machine and "mount" the UFS as a network drive... see if your data keeps it's meta info. That'd be a funny thing.