Re: MacOS X vs Linux HELP.


Subject: Re: MacOS X vs Linux HELP.
From: boris@range.infoplease.com
Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 10:46:41 EDT


>>>>> Lorenzo Perone writes:

LP> Among the posts here, one points out a phenomenon that made me
LP> stop using OSX and netatalk 1.4pre37_test (since with OS9, pre39
LP> or 1.5p6 works better to me): OSX panics when uploading files... I
LP> was using 10.0.1. Sometimes it took some time before the panic
LP> occurred. But it was almost sure it would pop up when uploading
LP> thousands of files.

I wrote:
>> No guarantees, but I'm using this combination and it is working pretty
>> well.

LP> Are You using 10.0.3, and did You ever experience the panic? I'd
LP> like to give the OSX-monster a new try, but as every launching
LP> operation on this OS takes ages, being forced to reboot @ every
LP> upload isn't really a bargain.... (also considering that OS9.1 has
LP> never been as stable as it is now, on my G4...).

Yes, 10.0.3, and no panic (since we stopped trying to use NIS,
anyway). But our usage is more single-file-at-a-time for editing, not
copying batches of thousands of files across the atalk connection.

Bng



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