Subject: Re: netatalk search volume
From: jeff@sudjam.com
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 08:22:12 EDT
I was able to resolve my volume searching.  
I had a hunch that it could be file naming convention.  I wrote a shell
script to go through all 159,000 files and check if there was any
macintosh extended chars or control chars and correct the file names.
After running this script I was able to search the volume.  It was damn
slow with so many files, but a volume search did work properly.
Jeff
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Harald Wagener wrote:
> Thomas Kaiser wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 19:01:00 -0700 (PDT), Jeff Masud wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm having a couple of issues with our netatalk server, maybe someone can
> > > give ideas.
> > 
> > Please supply Netatalk version and the os you use.
> > 
> > > 1. We are unable to search a 100GB volume, it gos and goes and goes... for
> > > about 5 mins and the returns an error.  Is there any way to index the
> > > server like how Watson index the local drive for faster searching?
> 
> [snip]
> > 
> > AFAIK, Netatalk doesn't support FPCatSearch at the moment, so your clients
> > finder have to run through the whole volume on its own, to search for files
> > matching your search criteria.
> > 
> 
> A workaround is not to search the entire volume, but only a subfolder.
> If Your data is sufficiently organized, this might be an option.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Harald
> 
> 
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