long file names may be a feature but we discourage it since jobs have to be sent to vendors and clients who may not be able to handle the long file names.

the most important feature for a production environment is the support for "autoreconnect" which reestablishes your connection when there's a network anomoly. that's right, osx can "reconnect" but only if the server supports it - which is why afp 3.1 (which you get with extremez-ip) is so important.

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