Netatalk 2.0.0 Released

SuperBanana writes "After what seems like an eternity, Netatalk (an Appletalk server suite for unix) has caught up with the latest version of the Apple Filing Protocol (aka Appleshare). This means long filenames, files larger than 2GB, and other goodies that will bring much happiness for Unix sysadmins supporting Macintosh users (check out the human-friendly release notes for the full list). As with any major release, even though this has been through several release candidates- read the gotchas, review the known bugs in their bug tracker, test it out on something non-critical...and help stabilize the release by reporting any bugs you find. Of course, make sure you read a guide to reporting bugs first!"

Urpmi?

[waffffffle]

Out of curiosity, how long does it usually take for something like this to show up in urpmi? I'd like to install it that way on my Mandrake server if at all possible but right now its only offering me 1.6. Also, I've been a longtime fan of AFP. As an OS X user it offers many great advantages over SMB, specifically the ability to move a file around on the server while it is open without the application losing track of it (just like a local file on an HFS+ disk). Also, most ISPs block the SMB port since Windows viruses spread through shares but they don't block the AFP port, which makes connecting to AFP shares over IP a breeze. Although for the record I'm not so much a fan of AFP over AppleTalk. AT was good about 15 years ago but Rendezvous has made it useless nowadays.

Does anyone still use AFP?

[green pizza]

Or maybe I should ask, does anyone still use AFP in *new* installations? We have a mix of Win/Unix/Mac(OSX). The Unix/Linux workstations and Macs automount several servers via NFS when a user logs in. The Win PCs use a Samba server (ugh). More "important" data is sent via scp. Telnet and ftp have been pretty much abandoned.

I thought that AFP was only used to support old legacy Macs running 9.2.2 or older.

Granted there are NFS clients for Windows and for "Classic" Mac OS 9.2.2 and earlier, but most are pretty ugly.

Disk images and other things.

[solios]

DVD images out of DVD Studio Pro are typically in the 2.5-3.8 gig range for me. Raw video files of the projects I work on start around a gig and a half and have reached upwards of 19 gigs. If you use final cut pro and don't check off the little check box that tells it to auto-segment in 2g increments, you'll wind up with some extremely large files under certain circumstances.

Basically, anybody who deals with video has been dealing with Very Large Files for many years. Anybody who has to back the shit up from a Mac and can't afford an Apple server has been itching for something like this for quite awhile.