willihope
Level 1 (4 points)
Servers Enterprise

Q: AFP and more than 16 TB?

HI Folks,

 

why is it possible to create and share a volume more than 16 TB on AFP?

 

It seems no problem to use it on OSX Clients.?

 

Because HFS+ can have 8 EB Size, thats 9 MILLIONS Terrabyte and AFP can only do 16 Terrabyte?!?!

 

Can somebody explain?

 

Willi

null, OS X Server

Posted on Mar 27, 2016 4:37 AM

Close
willihope

Q: AFP and more than 16 TB?

  • All replies
  • Helpful answers

  • by cdhw,

    cdhw cdhw Mar 27, 2016 5:50 PM in response to willihope
    Level 4 (2,668 points)
    Servers Enterprise
    Mar 27, 2016 5:50 PM in response to willihope

    What is the source of your information that 'AFP can only do 16TB'? AFAIK that limit was removed by AFP3.2 (OS X 10.4) although I'm not aware of any documentation that specifies what it was increased to.

     

    I don't have a disk large enough to verify this, unfortunately.

     

    C.