I'm looking to move to a release of unRAID that supports AFP. I understand the latest beta is not recommended, so I was wondering what Beta version has been reliable with AFP support.

I'm looking to move to a release of unRAID that supports AFP. I understand the latest beta is not recommended, so I was wondering what Beta version has been reliable with AFP support.

 

Short answer... None

 

AFP is in every release since 5.0b3 but none of those releases are what I would consider stable enough recommend for a production server.

 

For now, use 4.7

Thanks for the feedback. Thats what i had thought. I will wait for a more stable release.

As someone using 5.0b6a on a new build box (that needs the beta for controller support), I feel that I could cautiously recommend unRAID beta 6a to users interested in participating in the beta.

 

The biggest risk with 5.0b6a (so far anyway) is in migrating disks to the array.  Several users had their disk's MBR overwritten.  However, there is an easy way to rebuild your MBR with no data loss.  As far as I know, Tom has not yet determined all the reasons some users MBRs are overwritten.  We do know that a multi-partition cache drives will cause the problem, as will disks that have been used with a Linux boot manager called LILO.  If you don't fit either of these categories, and your disks were formatted by unRAID, your chances are pretty low of having a problem.  But Tom is still looking for help in determining why this is happening, and has documented some speciific things to check and do in an effort to see it happen (in the syslog that is).  If you decide to use 5.0b6, make sure you read the announcement thread thoroughly, and understand the risks before jumping in.  A newbie user recently loaded the beta and had exactly the MBR issue Tom was hoping to catch occur, but he had not read the announcements thread and lost the golden opportunity to capture a syslog that would have solved the mystery (he was able to rebuild his MBRs and lost no data).

 

I stop short of wholeheartedly recommending users install b6a, but I think for those that need special features that the 5.0 betas provide, like support for certain controllers and support for AFP, I would, at this point, consider it.  The only way these betas really get tested thoroughly is when users load it, so given it has been out for over 2 1/2 weeks and been hit pretty hard by users with test arrays, I feel that it is time for those adverturesome users that do their homework and won't freak out at the first sign of a problem, to load it.

 

One thing about this version is it will not start the array automatically by default.  After booting it will tell you, before it tries to mount the disk, whether it detects a problem with your MBR that will cause it to be overwritten when you start the array.  So don't start the array until you examine the unRAID main screen closely. Again, Tom explains this in the announcements thread.

 

I'll probably get shot by the other JBUMs, but that's my opinion.