Re: [Netatalk-admins] dbd cnidscheme, 128 volumes?

[didier <dga...@ma...>]

michael wrote:
> We have a 2.0.1 Debian box running with OS 10.3.x clients.
> The disappearing files thing has greatly improved since upgrading
> from 1.6.4, however we still notice some files disappearing.
> (The files actually disappear, not just corrupted .AppleD* files)
> We have to restore from a backup.
> It seemed that with 1.6.4, the files still existed on the server, but
> the OS X client would see 0 items in the share when it was mounted.
> Removing the .AppleDB folder would fix this.
> 
> Anyway, now we are running the dbd cnidscheme on the public shares and it
> seem to work great. We are still using the cdb scheme for home folders,
> but would like to try using dbd. 
> My question is, what happpens when you mount over 128 shares
> with the dbd scheme? 
> Will the netatalk daemon bomb out?
No but you won't be able to mount  new volumes.
As a temporary solution you can change MAXSRV in etc/cnid_dbd/cnid_metad.c


Didier