[Unraid OS version 6.9.0-beta22 available]

49 minutes ago, Marshalleq said:

1 - I assume you will be able to use NFS in alternate to AFP if you don't wish to use SMB. 

2 - If you want to add drivers and things, this is the way to do it.

Thank you for that info. That's reassuring there'll be a path forward for us. I have no desire to scrap my unraid server, and I really don't want to be stuck with an old version years from now. 

<off topic tangent> Yeah, there's no way in #^& I'm moving away from DVD Studio Pro. As somebody who's been doing DVD authoring since 1997, and have thousands of titles under my belt, I can say without hesitation, there's no better authoring program than DVD Studio Pro and I've used them all. Scenarist is the only other "Hollywood grade / replication ready" authoring software and due to its lack of a useful abstraction layer, it would literally take me 2 - 4 times longer to author a the kind of complex titles we create. I believe my company is probably the last company in the world offering boutique and unique DVD and Blu-ray features and menus in our authoring, no cookie cutter crap. Even Hollywood is cookie cutter-ing most of their titles now. </off topic tangent>

[Unraid OS version 6.9.0-beta22 available]

On 6/24/2020 at 2:46 PM, Dazog said:

AFP is Apple’s own protocol which was originally developed for Classic macOS, and has been widely supported by networked devices including storage such as NAS. But its use has now been deprecated for six years, since OS X 10.9 Mavericks. The last release was of AFP 3.4 over seven years ago

 

Time to move on from hardware that old.. 

 

I understand, and agree, most of my hardware is spanking new. And for most people they should, of course, be running current hardware and software. But over 50% of my income comes from DVD Authoring, and the last version of Mac OS that reliably runs DVD Studio Pro is 10.6.8. And working locally is a massive headache with content and resources being processed on new and old machines (and the entire reason I'm using a server). 

And while 10.6.8 supports SMB there's a massive bug. If you "Move" data or do anything similar, the OS completes the task instantly without actually doing the move and then it deletes the source. I lost several projects in a single move action. (Thank heavens for backups, though they were a bit out of date). Also AFP is much more reliable when there's resource fork data, which again is more common in older apps and MacOS's. 

I'm not asking to enable it by default or even make it visible by default. But keep it around for those of us that need it. And I guess that begs the question, can I add that kind of low level driver back in myself if it gets removed? I'm not familiar with that level of customization.

 

[Unraid OS version 6.9.0-beta22 available]

> AFP support has been removed.

Please don't do this! I have multiple older Macs that connect (this is required due to the work I do and the need to support OLD apps that only run on older Macs running older MacOS versions), and SMB has serious bugs (data loss level of bugs) on these older machines. AFP support is THE biggest reason I'm super happy to have gone with Unraid. Totally understandable to hide it for the majority of users, but don't remove it completely.