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Lion & Time Machine - NV+
Will there be an update to the NV+ to support Lion, especially around Time Machine. I've picked up the AFP fixed add-on, that's all working on the filesystem, but I have no backup at all now. If yo...
NetGear is one of the customers of NetAFP. Take a look at http://www.netafp.com/customers/ and http://www.netafp.com/status-of-netatalk-and-afp-support-by-nas-vendor-322/
NetAFP has been working on the fix for several months (at least) and if the Lion Dev Previews changed how things work adapting to those changes.
NetGear does not support beta OSes so saw no need to release an update till after Lion was officially released to the public (why add a fix for something only to find the fix doesn't work with the production OS?). Of course as the NetAFP team has been updating the Netatalk project over time and NetGear obviously doesn't want to add an old unstable release of Netatalk 2.2 to Sparc firmware, the latest release would present new challenges for backporting compared to the earlier Netatalk 2.2 releases which would explain the additional development time needed to get an update ready for Sparc.
NetAFP has been working on the fix for several months (at least) and if the Lion Dev Previews changed how things work adapting to those changes.
NetGear does not support beta OSes so saw no need to release an update till after Lion was officially released to the public (why add a fix for something only to find the fix doesn't work with the production OS?). Of course as the NetAFP team has been updating the Netatalk project over time and NetGear obviously doesn't want to add an old unstable release of Netatalk 2.2 to Sparc firmware, the latest release would present new challenges for backporting compared to the earlier Netatalk 2.2 releases which would explain the additional development time needed to get an update ready for Sparc.
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