[OpenAFS-win32-devel] Urgent! Anyone could give me a picture of openafs client for windows architecture?

[hedgepiggy]

Thank you Jeffrey. Do you have any documents regarding openafs client for
windows architecture?

Jeffrey Altman-2 wrote:
> 
> The Multiple UNC Provider (MUP) queries all of the file system drivers
> to find out which one handles requests for "\\AFS".  The SMB redirector
> says that it does.  From that point forward all requests for files whose
> path begins with "\\AFS" gets sent to the smb redirector.
> 
> The rest is roughly correct except that the AFS cache manager does
> not download files.  It reads 4K chunks of files as required to satisfy
> the incoming requests.
> 
> hedgepiggy wrote:
>> correct me if I am wrong or miss something...what I understand is:
>> 1.when user want to operate on AFS files
>> 2.the operation was directed (by who?)to smb redirector
>> 3.then the smb redirector passes the request to NetBIOS
>> 4.NetBIOS passes it in a smb packet to smb fileserver
>> 5.smb filesserver solve the request and talk to cache manager
>> 6.if no files in local disk, cache manager use RX protocol to download
>> file
>> from remote server
>> 7.the downloaded file was passed back to smb fileserver by loopback.
>> 
>> Is it a general process for a operation? 
>> 
>> Jeffrey Altman-2 wrote:
>>> hedgepiggy wrote:
>>>> Thank you Bharat and Jeffrey. Thanks for your explanation.
>>>> But there is still another question confused me. You meant that
>>>> filesystem
>>>> request would be passed by NetBIOS in SMB packet to SMB server. But how
>>>> could NetBIOS receive this filesystem request(read/write)?
>>>> Does it receive request from I/O Manager? Then how could I/O Manager
>>>> know
>>>> it
>>>> should be passed to NetBIOS?
>>> Netbios receives the request from the smb redirector (mrxsmb.sys)
>>>
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