[OpenAFS-win32-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] Community Support for OpenAFS for Windows

[John W. Sopko Jr.]

Can you elaborate on "This causes all Microsoft Office
applications to have failures when writing to AFS."

Do you mean when using the standard AFS Windows client to AFS, or using the
AFS Light Gateway to write to AFS on a Windows system? Thanks.

Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> OpenAFS 1.3.70 has now shipped. 
> 
> Examples of some of the hard work which is ahead of us:
> 

> * The architecture of the SMB/CIFS server does not allow for sequential
>   processing of SMB/CIFS requests.  This prevents us from implementing
>   support for digital signing but more importantly breaks applications
>   which use overlapped writes.  This causes all Microsoft Office
>   applications to have failures when writing to AFS.  I can't think of
>   a more important suite of applications which must simply work if AFS
>   is truly to be used in a transparent manner from the end user
>   experience.


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