Cygwin wishlist for NFSv4.2 driver? Re: [Ms-nfs41-client-devel] ANN: NFSv4.2/NFSv4.1 filesystem client Windows driver binaries for Windows 10/11+WindowsServer 2019/2022 for testing, 2025年03月31日 ...

Tue Apr 1 11:54:10 GMT 2025

On Apr 1 12:27, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 at 09:46, Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Good morning!
> >
> > For your consideration - we need FEEDBACK, please!
> >
> > New is:
> > - 2nd Spring-Release (🐝)
> > - 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
> > - Windows Storage32 API support, required for using MSI installer
> > files on NFS mounts
> > - Support for languages with wide characters (Japanese, Chinese,
> > Hindi, French...) in nfs://-URLs
> > - Display mount points with wide-characters in nfs_mount.exe correctly
>> New thread:
> Does Cygwin have any requests, or ideas, what could be improved in the
> ms-nfs41-client NFSv4.2 driver for Windows? New features?

No, but if we want to *better* support this driver, we need either a
patch (preferred) or at least info how to distinguish in
fs_info::update(*) between the MSFT driver and the NFSv4.2 driver.
Corinna
(*) https://sourceware.org/cgit/newlib-cygwin/tree/winsup/cygwin/mount.cc#n185