Fwd: [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07月03日 ...

Fri Jul 4 06:20:00 GMT 2025

Good morning!
For your consideration - we need FEEDBACK, please!
New is:
- 1st Summer release
- 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 <roland.mainz@nrubsig.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2025 at 21:09
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年07月03日 ...
To: <ms-nfs41-client-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Hi!
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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
#0b05f267c063c3d40e32727304e9f6ea9fc3b00f, 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_20250703_20h33m_git0b05f26.readme
- http://www.nrubsig.org/people/gisburn/work/msnfs41client/releases/testing/msnfs41client_cygwin_64bit32bit_binaries_20250703_20h33m_git0b05f26.html
(experimental HTML version)
** Download URL:
- http://www.nrubsig.org/people/gisburn/work/msnfs41client/releases/testing/msnfs41client_cygwin_64bit32bit_binaries_20250703_20h33m_git0b05f26.tar.bz2
** Download hash sums:
SHA2-256(msnfs41client_cygwin_64bit32bit_binaries_20250703_20h33m_git0b05f26.html)=
95b5507674ce36fc711644ef0d16a93efa1121183463ef676753f5f740ed5301
SHA2-256(msnfs41client_cygwin_64bit32bit_binaries_20250703_20h33m_git0b05f26.readme)=
093739659441a3c66dc552b2cacd8454d8c82f8fee478d0f00ca8897a015d377
SHA2-256(msnfs41client_cygwin_64bit32bit_binaries_20250703_20h33m_git0b05f26.tar.bz2)=
faf38128e2e7edbf6b3ca6f314dce81ebb224792394451683ef6260a6d1ca645
** Major changes since the last release:
- 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
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Bye,
Roland
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