Good morning! For your consideration - we need FEEDBACK, please!
New is: - 4th Spring-Release - Better, DocBook/XML-based docs - Improved /sbin/cygwinaccount2nfs4account script to better handle creation of Windows Domain accounts on the NFS server side - Better compatibility if Microsoft Defender Antivirus is running in paranoid mode - Improved Windows Extended Attribute (EA) support - Sparse file support (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file) for HPC environments - Symlink conversion, to make Windows symlinks exchangeable with other NFS clients on other platforms - Windows Server 2019 NFSv4.1 nfsd, Windows Server 2022 NFSv4.1 nfsd, Solaris 11.4 NFSv4.1 nfsd and Illumos NFSv4.2 nfsd support - Better WSL (Windows Services for Linux) support - MSYS2 support - TMPDIR/TMP/TEMP env variables can now point to a NFS filesystem - Windows Storage32 API support, required for using MSI installer files on NFS mounts Ced P.S.: Thanks go to Roland Mainz&Tigran Mkrtchyan&DESY.de for the ms-nfs41-client work, Corinna Vinschen for adding sparse file support in Cygwin 3.5, and many others who helped with development and testing ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Roland Mainz <roland.ma...@nrubsig.org> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 at 17:23 Subject: [Ms-nfs41-client-devel] ANN: NFSv4.2/NFSv4.1 filesystem client Windows driver binaries for Windows 10/11+WindowsServer 2019/2022 for testing, 2025-06-06 ... To: <ms-nfs41-client-de...@lists.sourceforge.net> Hi! ---- We've created a set of test binaries for the NFSv4.2/NFSv4.1 filesystem client driver for Windows 10 (32+64bit), Windows 11+Windows Server 2019/2022 (64bit), based on https://github.com/kofemann/ms-nfs41-client (commit id #e79b93ac7ad74392640018b3a2ca3e74f5050499, git bundle in tarball), for testing and feedback. ** FULL release readme: - http://www.nrubsig.org/people/gisburn/work/msnfs41client/releases/testing/msnfs41client_cygwin_64bit32bit_binaries_20250606_10h56m_gite79b93a.readme - http://www.nrubsig.org/people/gisburn/work/msnfs41client/releases/testing/msnfs41client_cygwin_64bit32bit_binaries_20250606_10h56m_gite79b93a.html (experimental HTML version) ** Download URL: - http://www.nrubsig.org/people/gisburn/work/msnfs41client/releases/testing/msnfs41client_cygwin_64bit32bit_binaries_20250606_10h56m_gite79b93a.tar.bz2 ** Download hash sums: SHA2-256(msnfs41client_cygwin_64bit32bit_binaries_20250606_10h56m_gite79b93a.readme)= 957d56ce4e4ec6afd262565238e52f3dbadb08c071f42898977dec31d49fa7f3 SHA2-256(msnfs41client_cygwin_64bit32bit_binaries_20250606_10h56m_gite79b93a.tar.bz2)= 10bbc9fc84dd00d6c0d87bc6da319c2bb3c0dff26126eb148eedd89ed01b6ecd ** Major changes since the last release: - Improved /sbin/cygwinaccount2nfs4account script to better handle creation of Windows Domain accounts on the NFS server side - Various documentation+READMEs converted into a single DocBook/XML documentation - *.(exe|dll) executables are now signed with a WDK test signature, helping with *rare* cases that Windows Defender with paranoid settings wrongly recognising the binaries as potential threads. A *.cer certificate file is supplied which can be imported into the Windows Defender to whitelist the binaries if this happens. - Support for FSCTL_DUPLICATE_EXTENTS_TO_FILE, which allows Windows 11 applications which use |CopyFile2()| (like cmd.exe copy, xcopy.exe etc) to copy files via block cloning. Requires NFSv4.2 NFS server with { CLONE, SEEK, DEALLOCATE } support, exporting a filesystem which supports block cloning (e.g. btrfs, xfs). This includes correct cloning of sparse files. - Sparse file support (requires NFSv4.2 server { SEEK, ALLOCATE, DEALLOCATE } and the |FATTR4_WORD1_SPACE_USED| attr), including hole/data range enumeration, punching holes etc., e.g. $ fsutil sparse queryrange mysparsefile # - Improved Windows Extended Attribute (EA) support (requires NFS >= v4.1 server with "Named Attribute" support ("OPENATTR")), including create/read/write/delete - Improved WSL support - Support for Storage32-API (e.g. enables use of *.msi installer files on NFS filesystems) - Cygwin /usr/bin/svn and Windows '/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/cmd/git' now work - Illumos NFSv4.2 server is now supported - Solaris 11.4 NFSv4.1 server is now supported - Windows Server 2022 NFSv4.1 server is now supported (compared to WS2019 this NFS server version has ACL support) ** Please send comments, bugs, test reports, complaints etc. to the MailMan mailing list at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ms-nfs41-client/lists/ms-nfs41-client-devel ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.ma...@nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ Ms-nfs41-client-devel mailing list ms-nfs41-client-de...@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ms-nfs41-client-devel -- Cedric Blancher <cedric.blanc...@gmail.com> [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CedricBlancher/] Institute Pasteur -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
