I think Netatalk 2.2.2 may actually fix this -- my install of 2.2.0 was failing to support DDP shares, but 2.2.2 works great. (Of course, since this is all dependent on a kernel module, it may be somewhat system-specific.)
8.1 does a great job of dealing with big volumes, and 7.1 seems also to be fine, although it mis-reports big volumes as being 0k in size, and always having 2gigs free space available. (I believe 2gigs was either the HFS or the AFP volume size limit at this point.)
I wouldn't do any critical work on this kind of Netatalk volume from a pre-8 Finder, but as a mainly read-only archive of software installers, it seems to work just fine.
Sharing out a volume that has been purposefully limited works just fine -- I made a virtual 20 meg partition and shared that out to System 7.1, which was able to accurately display the correct number of megabytes in the disk.
8.1 does a great job of dealing with big volumes, and 7.1 seems also to be fine, although it mis-reports big volumes as being 0k in size, and always having 2gigs free space available. (I believe 2gigs was either the HFS or the AFP volume size limit at this point.)
I wouldn't do any critical work on this kind of Netatalk volume from a pre-8 Finder, but as a mainly read-only archive of software installers, it seems to work just fine.
Sharing out a volume that has been purposefully limited works just fine -- I made a virtual 20 meg partition and shared that out to System 7.1, which was able to accurately display the correct number of megabytes in the disk.