turns out os x has no ‘fuser’ command. oh well. But
umount -f /your/device/path
does the trick in many cases where the pansy finder rejects to eject (aka unmount) a volume
Category: OSX
no! It hasn’t.
But now there is the first
trojan it seems.
You need to download and click on it. It’s finder icon appears to be forged to look like a jpeg file.
Now would be the time to see if the “Broken Windows” theorem holds true.
If you try to mount a samba 3.0.14 volume from an OS X 10.4 client then the mount will never finish / connect and you will get an entry in the syslog of your server like:
smbd[30115]: [2006/02/14 18:15:46, 0] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_mem_get(537)
smbd[30115]: prs_mem_get: reading data of size 2 would overrun buffer.
smbd[30115]: [2006/02/14 18:15:46, 0] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:api_pipe_bind_req(919)
mailhost smbd[30115]: api_pipe_bind_req: unable to unmarshall RPC_HDR_RB struct.
The fix is easy: just upgrade samba to 3.0.20 and things work again. Fedora Core 4 comes with
this ‘bad’ samba, and only OS X 10.4 barfs on it according to the net. 10.3 is supposed to be fine.
Chiat/Day: 0 – People: 1
iTunes does a good job in keeping my hard drive full with nice audio and video.
It’s easy and wide spread.
It still had glitches though:
Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Podcasts
contains those files. No matter if video or audio.
When you delete a podcast then files are not deleted at times.
I just found some old things that should have gone.
The current playback within iTunes is very lame. There seems to be no
easy way or preference to let quicktime handle these files.
But it’s better than nothing. It’s somewhat tragic that there was not
nothing before Apples move into this market. Many Applications worked
much better with RSS and media enclosures. But they failed to gain enough
momentum.
Just added ten more Terrabytes to the Xsan. When republishing the volume via afp on a OS X 10.4 server box I had to:
sharing -a /path/to/volume
serveradmin stop afp
serveradmin start afp
Things that are not obvious in this:
The path in the sharing command can not end in a slash. But the shell WILL add it if you let it finish it.
The stop / start is needed. sharing -l will show the new volume but clients can not mount it.
Another neat trick that I learned today is that you have to slice an Xraid into 2 LUNs in order to overcome an internal 2 Terrabyte limit of the Storenext *cough* Apple Xsan software. That alone gave us an unexpected 2.7TB boost.