Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Problems with reported file sizes - please help
From: Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 05 1997 - 04:45:30 EDT
System < 7.5 will produce strange results with AFPD volumes >2GB.
System 7.5 to 7.5.3 are all OK up to 4GB.
System 7.5.4 and newer can work with network volumes up to 4TB IIRR.
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Eric Rasmussen wrote:
> For several months now, I have had netatalk 1.3.3 running happily on a
> Linux 2.0.30 system. The client Macs are running System 7.1, and 7.5.1.
>
> I recently upgraded the AFPD shared directory tree from a 100 Mb hard drive
> to a 3.7 Gb partition on an even larger drive. Although the unix system
> seems to have no trouble dealing with the large partition, the Macs are
> getting some crazy results. For instance, if I open a folder that resides
> on the Unix server, I get a mixture of positive and negative file sizes.
> Simple actions such as dragging a small file (<100Kb) from the desktop to
> the network folder now fail, telling me that it needs 900+ Mb additional
> space, when in reality there is over 3 Gb free.
>
> Let me reiterate that, from within a Unix shell account, it is clear that
> the Unix system has no trouble identifying the proper file sizes and amount
> of free space, nor has it had any problems moving data to/from the new
> partition.
>
> Is there some maximum partition size above which AFPD fails? If not, does
> anyone have any suggestions? I really need to get this working again,
> because it's for my place of work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -Eric Rasmussen (ear@usfirst.org)
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