Q: When my application attempts to save a document onto some AFP volumes, it
reports that the document could not be saved because the disk was full, even
though there's plenty of free space. (In fact, Finder displays a size for
the volume that is much larger than it should be, but I've seen servers
play this kind of trick before, and it hasn't caused any problems like
this.) Further investigation shows that my app's call to Allocate is
failing. Why?
A: AFP servers do not implement Allocate; the AppleShare client does. It
decides whether the Allocate call should succeed or fail based on the space
available on the disk. Some versions of some third-party AFP servers
erroneously report the space available in such a way as to confuse
AppleShare client into failing the request. Many calls to Allocate are done
for the sake of optimization only. If this is the case for your code,
simply ignore the return value of Allocate and continue saving the
document. If not, the best action for you to take may be to recommend to
your users that they upgrade their AFP server to a later version which does
not have this bug.
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