Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Netatalk and volume size calculations...
From: Webmaster (web@typeline.com)
Date: Tue Mar 10 1998 - 07:38:28 EST
Before I decide to roll my sleeves up, has anyone patched the FreeBSD patched
version
of 1.4b2 with the asun patch successfully??
bsmith@h-e.com wrote:
> Aha, sorry, my goof. You are using 1.4b2, I'm using 1.4b2+asun2.0a18.2 (on a
> Linux system, but I don't think that's an issue here). I had forgotten that
> large volume support was one of the things asun added during all his marvelous
> work on TCP/IP support. I saw the 1.9GB "truncate" problem on 7.5.5 clients
> when I first set up my server, but in my case since I have netatalk patched for
> large volumes, upgrading the AppleShare client fixed the problem. You are quite
> correct concluding that the base 1.4b2 afpd can't handle volumes >2GB regardless
> of AppleShare client or MacOS version.
>
> You could try to move to the asun version, or try applying his patches to what
> you have, look at <ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/asun> for details. I also
> recall there is a large-volume patch for base 1.4b2 on the netatalk home page,
> that might be a better choice if you don't need all the other stuff in the asun
> version. But I don't know how any of this might interact with the BSD 2.2.5
> patches, so proceed with care!
>
> Hope this is helpful.
>
> Bob Smith
> Hammett & Edison, Inc.
> bsmith@h-e.com
>
> ______________________________________________
> Original message sent on Mon, Mar 9 5:44 PM by web@typeline.com (Webmaster) :
>
> To: bsmith
> Re: [netatalk-admins] Netatalk and volume size calculations...
> Why do I only see 1.9 gigs of a 5.3 gig Netatalk volume mounted on a Mac running
> System 8???
> There's about 500 megs used on the volume.
> I'm running Netatalk 1.4b2 patched for FreeBSD 2.2.5 if it helps. Also, from the
> Mac, in the window
> for the mounted volume the 'bytes in disk' label is always zero k. It never
> grows
> no matter how many
> files of varying sizes you copy into it.
>
> I'll try updating one of my 7.5.3 Mac clients to see if there's any difference.
>
> Thanks
>
> bsmith@h-e.com wrote:
>
> > Systems after 7.5.3 can handle volumes up to 4GB, but AppleShare volumes
> bigger
> > than 2GB require a newer version of the AppleShare client to work properly,
> the
> > AppleShare client 3.6.x that came with Systems 7.5.3 and 7.5.5 won't cut it.
> > There is an upgrade to AppleShare client 3.7.2 somewhere on the Apple web
> pages
> > (sorry, don't remember the exact URL) and using this allows 4GB volumes on
> > Systems 7.5.3 and later. Volumes >4GB still require System 7.6 or later. The
> > AppleShare 3.7.2 client also does ASIP, so if you're using the asun patched
> > netatalk you get the advantage of TCP/IP connections (they seem faster than
> DDP
> > connections, but I might just be imagining this).
> >
> > Bob Smith
> > Hammett & Edison, Inc.
> > bsmith@h-e.com
> >
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