on 05/26/2000 7:29 PM, Bob Nestor at rnestor@augustmail.com is rumored to
have said:

> Greg wrote:
> 
>> on 05/26/2000 5:27 PM, David Brownlee at abs@netbsd.org is rumored to have
>> said:
>> 
>>> The macos interface cannot understand free space of >2GB. You
>>> can still fill the 9GB partition as normal.
>> 
>> David,
>> 
>> Is this the netatalk you are talking about or regular MacOS?  Because I have
>> a 13 Gig Firewire Drive connected to the box I am mounting the netatalk
>> share from and it sees all 13 gigs without problem, I also access other
>> Appleshare Drives on other servers (MacOS based) that are much larger than 2
>> gigs....
> 
> I believe it's a limitation in MacOS.  I have a Mac running System 8.6
> with a 20Gig drive. When it's marked as shared it shows up as a 1.99Gig
> drive to another Mac running System 9.0.4.  I see the same "problems"
> when mounting NetAtalk shared drives under MacOS.
> 
> -bob

After a careful Search of the TIL (http://til.info.apple.com)  I have
discovered the following from Apple

see reference: http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n15460

It would appear that (IMO) it is in netatalk, as AppleShare appears as
follows:

versions 2.01 and Pro have a Max Volume Size of 2 Gig, versions 3.0.x,
4.0.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1 have a Max Volume Size of 4 Gig and AppleShare IP 5.x
and 6.x (4,5) as well as regular Filesharing (4,7) have a Max Volume size of
2 Terabytes

(4) Mac OS versions prior to System 7.5 support a maximum volume size of 2
    GB. System 7.5 and later support volume sizes in excess of 4 GB.
    However, because AppleTalk Filing Protocol (AFP) version 2.0 is limited
    to volume sizes of 4 GB or less, the maximum AppleShare volume size
    remains 4 GB. (see note below)

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is it possible that we have an older version of AFP in the netatalk package?
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(5) AFP 2.2 adds support for 2 terabyte volumes. Using AppleShare Client
    3.7.2 or newer with AppleShare IP 5.0.2 or newer allows the use of these
    larger volume sizes.

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I will have to check for sure, but I believe that 9.0.4 has a new enough
Appleshare (which seems to be confirmed by my being able to mount larger
volumes off of our MacOS based servers) to handle the larger volume sizes
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(7) Clients will see all the items on the server but the free space reported
will never exceed 1.9 GB.

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This is the case exactly, which would _suggest_ that maybe our Appletalk
package emulates regular filesharing?  If this is the case is there a way to
build a more efficient multiple user version maybe?
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Regards,

Greg


I would think that maybe note 5 applies to the situation that I am
experiencing...