Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Netatalk and volume size calculations...
From: Richard Mann (rich@pubserv.com)
Date: Tue Mar 10 1998 - 10:57:15 EST
The URL I found for AppleShare client 3.7.2 is
http://horton.austin.apple.com/cgi-bin/lister.pl?US/Macintosh
/Networking-Communications/AppleShare
BTW, there is also an update from System 7.6 to 7.6.1, as well as
from System 8.0 to 8.1, under
http://swupdates.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/lister.pl?Apple.Support.Area
/Apple.Software.Updates/US/Macintosh/System
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On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 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 than 2GB require a newer version of the AppleShare client to work properly, the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
>
> ______________________________________________
> Original message sent on Mon, Mar 9 1:28 PM by web@typeline.com (Typeline
> Webmaster) :
>
> To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> [netatalk-admins] Netatalk and volume size calculations...
> I've been posting to this list during the past couple of weeks about a
> nagging problem with respect to afpd calculating and sending volume size
> info
> to the Macintosh that's greater than 2 gigs in size.
>
> A few of the responses I've received point to the fact that previous
> incarnations
> of the Mac OS couldn't mount large volumes. While this is true with
> early versions
> of System 7, 7.5.3 through 8 have no trouble mounting larger volumes 2
> gigs and over.
>
> We're running Power Mac's on our network running 7.5.3 to 8.1. We're
> also running
> a Novell AFP server that lets us mount over 4 gigs on each Mac. So the
> problem
> isn't in the current releases of the Mac client OS's. It's Netatalk.
>
> After looking at the Netatalk source (volume.c, unix.c and
> afpd-bfree.diff, the latest patch) it's clear the server can't mount
> anything larger than 2147483647 bytes (0x7fffffff). This and a possible
> case of integer overflow in volume.c seem
> to be putting a ceiling on volume size.
>
> Has anybody hacked or fixed this code so bigger volumes can be mounted?
> This is very
> frustrating...
>
> Bob Badaracco
>
>
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