[Netatalk-devel] Re: netatalk and high-capacity servers

[jeff b <je...@ou...>]

michellem wrote:
> I've been a user of the old netatalk for quite some
> time - have downloaded and tried the new one - I'm
> very happy that someone has picked up on this. And
> - if you are in need of more beta testers, please
> let me know.
> 
> I have a question - netatalk has always been a bit
> quirky - but has worked fine in a fairly low-key
> environment with several macs, and regular size
> files. I have a client who has a small 10
> workstation Mac network, but needs to share a lot
> of huge files over Gigabit Ethernet, and is trying
> to decide between an appleshare server and Linux.
> Obviously, Linux would save huge amounts of money,
> but this hinges on the dependability and speed of
> netatalk. I didn't know whether or not you folks
> had information on whether or not you're close to
> being able to deal with this sort of volume
> situation yet. Thanks for any info.

The newest CVS version has a few new bugfixes and features, and is
currently in testing for the 1.5 release (no more brand new features
until after then). If you are concerned about stability, ask the people
on the netatalk-devel and netatalk-admins lists about what they would
configure it with. The biggest known problem involves reusing DIDs,
which can be circumvented if you don't mind aliases to innards of shares
being broken.

jeff