netatalk

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

	If I recall correctly, netatalk still uses 2.x directives of the 
AFP protocol (currently at version 3 in Mac OS X). The biggest 
differences between the new and old protocol is the removal of file and 
disk size limits. No matter how big a disk was, it would always be 
reported as < 4GB when viewed with AFP < 3, regardless of having 
AppleTalk or IP as the transport protocol. This limits would also apply 
to files transfered, which could only scale up to 2 GB with AFP 2.x. 
Another removed limitation is the name length with AFP 3 and Unicode, if 
I recall correctly.

	Hope that helps. Regards,...


		Juan.


On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 02:54  PM, Michael George wrote:

> Is there a known issue with netatalk and very large files (>10GB)?  I'm 
> running YDL2.3 with netatalk-1.5.3.1-1c and when we tried to move an 
> 11-12GB file through it, it choked (though it cleaned up after itself).
>
> It's not a Linux FS issue, because moving the file w/ sftp worked just 
> fine.
>
> I've checked the netatalk site but I didn't find any mention of this 
> limit.  Perhaps it's an issue with the protocol itself rather than the 
> implementation?
>
> -Michael George
>  Senior Engineer, Software Development
>  Aurora Video Systems, Inc.
>
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