Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] odd saving behavior
From: bsmith@h-e.com
Date: Tue Mar 31 1998 - 18:21:29 EST
Original message sent on Mon, Mar 30 2:08 PM by john@scl.co.uk (John Sutton) :
> Not wishing to be (too) provocative here, I have to ask: Does anybody use
> netatalk successfully in a "real world" environment? And if yes, how do
> they do it? Guidelines please... :-)
I'm using netatalk 1.4b2 as the primary file server for two departments, one
with 8 people who use it mostly as a way to get files from Linux to the Mac, the
other with 4 people who do graphics work with 2-4MB files opened/saved off the
server constantly. I've had to do quite a bit of tinkering with netatalk, but I
currently have it working nearly as well as the old AppleShare 4.2.1 server it
replaced (better, when you consider that it is nearly 2x as fast and I only have
1 machine to back up instead of 2).
The only remaining problem is the "persistent file ID" limitation, and I have
been able to come up with work-arounds for that. The main trick depends on the
fact that aliases of regular files on netatalk volumes will always work despite
the ID problem. Aliases of folders, and "remembered" locations within
applications, usually don't work. So the work-around usually involves making a
folder on a local hard drive and pointing the application to that folder rather
than one directly on the netatalk volume, and then putting aliases of the real
files on the netatalk volume in that local folder. The application can find the
folder with no trouble since it is on the hard drive, and when it opens the
"files" in it, the OS resolves the file aliases correctly even though the IDs on
the netatalk volume are different. Sometimes it is necessary to first create
the local folder with real files in it, and go through a setup procedure in the
application that "points" it to those files, then once that is done, replace the
files with aliases of the same name that point to files on the netatalk volume.
But so far something along these lines has worked in every case that has come
up.
Bob Smith
Hammett & Edison, Inc.
bsmith@h-e.com
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