Lol, thanks Charlieman, and thanks for your original hypothesis. I don't know anything about OSX, so I can't ponder your post.
And as a further note about the appleshare limit...
From my real world results it looks like the appleshare volume size limit for System 6 is somewhere between 3 and 10 gigs. Sooo, I'd have to guess that the real limit is either 4096 MB or 8192 MB since those would correspond with 36 and 37 bits.
Also, I've been able to access/read files on a 3 gig volume from system 6, but not write to it (as discussed in a different 68kmla thread), so I guess three's a lower limit for being able to write to the volume.
And as a further note about the appleshare limit...
From my real world results it looks like the appleshare volume size limit for System 6 is somewhere between 3 and 10 gigs. Sooo, I'd have to guess that the real limit is either 4096 MB or 8192 MB since those would correspond with 36 and 37 bits.
Also, I've been able to access/read files on a 3 gig volume from system 6, but not write to it (as discussed in a different 68kmla thread), so I guess three's a lower limit for being able to write to the volume.