From: Thomas K. <Tho...@ph...> - 2003-12-29 21:32:32
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:53:01 -0600 (CST), Ashok Aiyar wrote: > The AFP3.1 specification states that long or short name can be upto 255 > characters long. Bytes, not chars! :-) 255 bytes will allow 85-255 characters per file-/foldername... > When netatalk claims AFP3.1 compliance, it will meet that specification. Actually it does. One only has to check out "branch-netatalk-afp-3x-dev" from CVS, compile the whole stuff and do some first tests. For all the impatient: Don't try to reshare your existing Netatalk shares with this new version as some internal structures have changed and there will be no easy way back to older versions... A small footnote: This CVS branch is officially pre-alpha quality. In fact, it is the best working Netatalk version, I've ever had to deal with :-) > That being said, have you examined if the filename mangling support in > current releases of netatalk (1.6.x) meets your needs? It provides long > name support within the constraints imposed by AFP2.2 But only for mangling long names already existing on the server. There's no support (and there never will be, as Apple won't provide an AFP 2.2 compliant AppleShare client that can deal with UTF8 names) for storing items with names longer than 31 bytes from AFP 2.x clients... Regards, Thomas |