Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] One Server, 2 Volumes and a big file
From: ian reinhart geiser (geiseri@msoe.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 21 1999 - 19:38:12 EST
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Harald Roelle wrote:
> Right now I encountered the following problem:
>
> I´ve got one server which exports two volumes.
>
> From the Finder I tried to copy a big file (about 600M) from one volume to
> the other one.
>
> What happened:
> After the ´copy´ window opened the mac was blocked (no progress bar in the
> window, watch cursor active).
> Looking at my Linux box I saw that copying was in progress. It seemed to be
> done locally, disk to disk (according to the speed the file grew without
> heavy network load). But after some time my mac complained, that the
> connection to the server was lost and therefore the copy can´t be done.
>
> I guess netatalk does the copy locally (which is fine) but ´forgets´ to
> tell the mac what´s going on. (a very high level view)
>
> I don´t know very much about AFP in detail, but I wonder if it´s possible
> at all to have such ´progress notifications´.
>
> My setup:
> Linux 20.0.36 + netatalk+asun on a K6/200
> MacOS D1-8.1 (German) on a PowerBook G3 Series
> 10 MBit/s Ethernet
>
> Has anyone seen this before? Any fixes?
yes i have seen this before...
on my linux box it seems like it copies it
in RAM...
after a file is about 60+ megs on the server
the box will puke and the copie fails...
-ian reinhart geiser
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