Re: Filesize limit


Subject: Re: Filesize limit
From: Frank Joerdens (frank@joerdens.de)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2001 - 06:19:20 EDT


On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 05:58:19PM -0700, Leland Wallace wrote:
> AFP versions prior to 3.0 use a signed 32 bit int to represent offsets
> into
> files for reading or writing. This gives those versions a filesize limit
> of 2 Gig.
>
> AFP 3.0 provides a signed 64-bit offset, which should last us for a
> while.
>
> Mac OS X has an AppleShare Client that speaks AFP 3.0.

Would netatalk speak AFP 3.0? In other words, if I were using OS X (I
must confess that I did not try that), I could read and write files >
2GB from a netatalk server?

Regards, Frank



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