iPhoto '11 TROUBLE

You can bet that many more people will run into the same problem as they begin installing the new iLife. So I ask that you develop a solution for your customers to implement.

I think this needs stating at the outset before a flood of iLife '11 related posts come: This is not going to happen

Such support would require the NAS to fully support HFS+J volumes, however Linux (the underlying OS of most NAS) does not provide such support to the level required. The reality is development of HFS+ support for Linux stalled more than 2 years ago (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus/) and no amount of requesting is going to get Netgear alone to change this.

NetGear can't help it that Apple doesn't design it's software with storing a library on network volumes in mind. Have a read of viewtopic.php?f=21&t=45645

Apple prevent network storage on anything other than their own servers, by enforcing the use of HFS+ formatted volumes. Also there are repeated examples of network storage capability being disabled over the various application releases (eg Apple disabled CIFS support in iMovie when upgrading from '08 to '09 )

Local storage or iSCSI are the only options - check the Apple forums and you will find significant discussion on iSCSI as many mac users realise this is the only network option. Either workaround this via iSCSI or local libraries backed-up to the NAS via TimeMachine as suggested in previous posts, or invest in an Apple server.