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Netatalk 2.0.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the talk-to-me-baby dept.

SuperBanana writes "After what seems like an eternity, Netatalk (an Appletalk server suite for unix) has caught up with the latest version of the Apple Filing Protocol (aka Appleshare). This means long filenames, files larger than 2GB, and other goodies that will bring much happiness for Unix sysadmins supporting Macintosh users (check out the human-friendly release notes for the full list). As with any major release, even though this has been through several release candidates- read the gotchas, review the known bugs in their bug tracker, test it out on something non-critical...and help stabilize the release by reporting any bugs you find. Of course, make sure you read a guide to reporting bugs first!"

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  1. netatalk is a godsend by Soko · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... especially when dealing with the evil AFP and OS9 gods.

    1.6.4 has a nasty habit of b0rking the CNID database (A berkely DB that contains all of those wonderful resource forks for the Mac files). You have to shut down the AFP service, repair the DB, then connect one Mac so you can fix permissions in the .AppleDB directory - even if you set the dir 2775.

    I haven't played too much with version 2 yet, but it does seem faster and more stable. I'm hoping that the DB will stay unscrambled for more than 2 weeks at a time, and that the DB daemon will honour the directory permissions.

    I compiled it from source, and the included SPEC file didn't want to let me create an RPM - if anyone has one of netatalk 2 for FC2, I would appreciate it.

    Soko

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    "Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
  2. Before someone asks... by the+JoshMeister · · Score: 5, Informative


    I just know someone is going to ask this, so I'm writing this as a preemptive strike. ;o)

    Yes, there really *are* people who have files greater than 2 GB. A perfect example is hard drive images. At a previous place of employment, we imaged entire iMac hard drives and put them on a server so that the HDs could be reimaged at any time. Seeing as the iMac HD was about 6 GB, it was absolutely essential to have support for 2+ gig files. Just one example.

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    the JoshMeister on Security
  3. Just installed last night by ozzmosis · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just installed 2.0 on freebsd last night, from what little tests I have done so far afpd seems to be alot faster in this version and is just as fast as nfs.v3. I got an average of 8.43MBps with netatalk and an average of 8.54MBps with nfs. Both were bouncing back and forth on which was faster.

    Longer file names are also supported! This is a huge plus if you have long file names (ie. mp3s)