[Afpfs-ng-devel] What's coming up with afpfs-ng

[Alex d. <ale...@gm...>]

afpfs-ng 0.1 has been out there for a few weeks, and I've gotten some
responses back from people, generally interested in the project and a
bit of testing.

Here's what's coming in 0.2.

The structure needs to change a bit so that we can support things like
password changing and efficient multiple volume mounting.  So I'm
going to make a daemon that handles all the AFP traffic (for multiple
servers and multiple mounts per server).   There'll also be a small
client that allows for various commands like password changing,
mounting, etc.

I'm also trying to fix the AFP 3.x writing problem.  I know I've never
seen it work, but I believe that others have.  I'm a bit short on
equipment, so I haven't been able to get a packet trace of a file
write over AFP 3.x, all my work's been done with netatalk.

So if anyone has such an environment, that'd be appreciated.  Now that
my wife has her macbook, I should get her old ibook, thus giving me
two afp 3.x machines.  Then when I also get my ethernet hub (not
switch), I should also be able to do some testing with macos 9.

Also coming is a way to represent resource fork data and icons as
Linux files in a similiar way to how HFS+ works.  I've only read about
it, I haven't actually used it.  But that's coming.

Feel free to join in any capacity that you can...

- Alex