Subject: Re: Locking propigation probelm samba to netatalk & netatalk tosamba
From: testing roaming (mht@research.dfci.harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 14 2001 - 10:54:48 EST
Hauke,
I've been living with various appleshare servers for more
than a decade -- implementations from Pacer software on VMS (gasp)
and Unix, CAP, Netatalk. Several vendors attempted implementations
of what they called "NFS/Share" or something like that. All, as
I recall, were horrendously slow -- not for file transfer but for
duirectory scanning. This was explained to me as having
to do with the way in which Appleshare get's to know what is in
subdirectories and required single iterative calls to find out what
was there -- very bad if your directory has a few thousand files.
I don't know if this is a technical issue that can't be overcome,
but it seemed not to be trivial.
I believe they all disappeared. Are any still around that
you know of?
Matthew Temple
Hauke Fath wrote:
>
> At 22:17 Uhr +0100 13.03.2001, Frank Joerdens wrote:
>
> >What I'm wondering is: Isn't the whole issue becoming somewhat moot with
> >Mac OS X which has NFS support, and a flat filesystem to boot?
>
> Just about when the last "Classic" MacOS machine leaves the shop.
> I.e.: "Not yet."
>
> And, while NFS may be supported by X, I have not come across a
> statement that it is going to be the preferred filesharing mechanism.
>
> hauke
>
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