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, 2025-03-31 ...

[Sebastian Feld]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM Cedric Blancher via Cygwin
<cygwin@cygwin.com> 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?

Windows GUI installer, which also ships a minimum offline version of
Cygwin. Right now Cygwin install does not work in intranets, limiting
its usefulness.

Sebi
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Sebastian Feld - IT security consultant