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List:       netatalk
Subject:    [Netatalk-admins] Re: Problem "of_alloc: maximum number of forks exceeded" [solved]
From:       Kaspar Fischer <fischerk () inf ! ethz ! ch>
Date:       2006-03-07 16:34:33
Message-ID: 0727CB75-D2D3-4999-AA52-1136F8D0975C () inf ! ethz ! ch
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It seems that the problem only occurs when you have the share
mounted as read-only. As soon as I remove the "options:ro"
from AppleVolumes.default, everything works fine!

Strange, but good news for my data!

Kaspar

On 07.03.2006, at 16:09, Kaspar Fischer wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I experience a strange problem with MacOS 10.4.5 and MacOS 10.3.x.
> While it is possible to copy indivual files and even bunches of
> files, I obtain an error when I copy large amounts of data (>= 2GB
> in my experience). The Finder then givens me an error message,
> most of the time
>
>   "Sorry, the operation could not be completed because an
>   unexpected error occured (Error code -41)"
>
> and stops, not even telling me with which file the problem occurred.
> I then tried copying using "cp -R" in the Terminal and received tons
> of "Too many open files in system" errors. (Both errors occur when
> I am copying FROM the server to a local hard disk.)
>
> After a while I realized that on the linux side (netatalk version
> 1.6.3), afpd is not happy, too:
>
>   Mar  7 17:42:43 localhost afpd[1708]: [ofork.c:196]: E:AFPDaemon:
>   of_alloc: maximum number of forks exceeded.
>   Mar  7 17:43:06 localhost last message repeated 9 times
>
> Does anybody know what this means? Is it serious? How can it
> be circumvented? If this error shows up, does this mean that
> I should recopy the data? (I am worried about data that I copied
> from the server but where I have not looked in the log, which
> is full of these errors...)
>
> I have approximately 400GB of data that I must copy to a backup
> drive, and it is out of question that I copy them in small
> bunches ;-)
>
> Any hint is highly appreciated,
> Kaspar



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