How long do you think it will be before EnCase®, ProDiscover®, FTK, and the open source tools are able to process files in this format?
We’ve had no contact with the authors of EnCase, ProDiscover, or FTK. However, we believe that if AFF becomes popular they will modify their tools to handle the format. But even if they don’t, you can use these tools NOW by mounting a filesystem with FUSE and then exporting that filesystem to a windows box using either SAMBA or VMWare (you run the tool inside VMWare on a machine that’s already running Linux with FUSE).