netatalk

[Michael George]

You are correct.  I forgot to follow up to this group, but that's 
exactly the info I got from the netatalk-admins mailing list...

On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 11:01  PM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:

>
> 	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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-Michael George
  Senior Engineer, Software Development
  Aurora Video Systems, Inc.