Good evening! For your consideration - we need FEEDBACK, please!
New is: - 2nd Summer release - More software compatibility: MariaDB database, Microsoft Office, ... - Bug fixes for Win11 - Volume label is now an URL to the NFS server, e.g. nfs://hostname/ - winsg.exe now supports PowerShell directly - Bug fixes for 32bit applications on 64bit kernels (e.g. block cloning now works for 32bit applications) - The NFS driver and wings.exe now support non-ASCII characters (e.g french circumflex) - 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 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Roland Mainz <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2025 at 13:58 Subject: [Ms-nfs41-client-devel] ANN: NFSv4.2/NFSv4.1 filesystem client Windows driver binaries for Windows 10/11+WindowsServer 2019/2022 for testing, 2025-08-04 ... To: <[email protected]> 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 #d02fdef0eb50ffead29d88bd6e6899cfc49decd7, 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_20250804_10h39m_gitd02fdef.readme - http://www.nrubsig.org/people/gisburn/work/msnfs41client/releases/testing/msnfs41client_cygwin_64bit32bit_binaries_20250804_10h39m_gitd02fdef.html (experimental HTML version) ** Download URL: - http://www.nrubsig.org/people/gisburn/work/msnfs41client/releases/testing/msnfs41client_cygwin_64bit32bit_binaries_20250804_10h39m_gitd02fdef.tar.bz2 ** Download hash sums: SHA2-256(msnfs41client_cygwin_64bit32bit_binaries_20250804_10h39m_gitd02fdef.html)= 2972b6440f8911e3a2007498b5fc4307fe86e8aa8612a529cd20548eddcca73f SHA2-256(msnfs41client_cygwin_64bit32bit_binaries_20250804_10h39m_gitd02fdef.readme)= 68d91ac23cfb450c41c1bfcc22609cdf52ded26db83b36f5eeb058e5237b5bbc SHA2-256(msnfs41client_cygwin_64bit32bit_binaries_20250804_10h39m_gitd02fdef.tar.bz2)= c7ffb058cfd7df5bd905ba10b15efce5c22e31c8bcb07f477dca47e19dcc62fd ** Major changes since the last release: - Maximum number of ACEs in ACLs has been increased to 128 - More software tested for compatibility: MariaDB, Microsoft Office 2016, Visual Studio 2022 work with msnfs41client - Volume label is now the nfs://-URL to the server (up to 31 characters for Windows Explorer compatibility) - Support for user and group names with non-ASCII (e.g. Unicode) names (like German umlauts) in ms-nfs41-client, winsg.exe etc. - winsg.exe now has a /P option to run powershell.exe with the requested group - |FSCTL_DUPLICATE_EXTENTS_TO_FILE| (file/block cloning) now works with 32bit processes on 64bit kernel - nfs_mount.exe now enforces that normal mounts need nfs://-URLs with absolute paths, and "public NFS" mounts need relative paths in a nfs://-URL - sec=none support - 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) [email protected] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ Ms-nfs41-client-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ms-nfs41-client-devel -- Cedric Blancher <[email protected]> [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
