Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Netatalk and volume size calculations...
From: Typeline Webmaster (web@typeline.com)
Date: Tue Mar 10 1998 - 11:29:25 EST
Rich,
I appreciate the links but my version of Netatalk 1.4b2 running under
FreeBSD 2.2.5
will not mount anything larger than 2 gig. The ceiling for volume size
is hard
coded in the source. I thought about applying the asun patches but
decided against it until I've found someone who has gone through the
agony. Also, the asun patch
seems to be too new and a bit immature for us to use now. We'll either
wait for it
to become more stable or wait for a newer release of the Appleshare
version.
Richard Mann wrote:
>
> 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
>
> //\ --rich
> // \
> // / \ Richard Mann -- Network Administrator
> // / / \ P u b l i c a t i o n S e r v i c e s, I n c.
> \\ / / / Champaign, Illinois, USA 61821 (217) 398-2060 x22
> \\ / /
> \\ /
> \\/
>
> 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 than 2GB require a newer version of the AppleShare client to work properly, the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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