A few minutes ago the bulk of the AFS Redirector sources were pushed to http://gerrit.openafs.org. The ticket numbers are
http://gerrit.openafs.org/5430 http://gerrit.openafs.org/5431 http://gerrit.openafs.org/5432 http://gerrit.openafs.org/5433 http://gerrit.openafs.org/5434 http://gerrit.openafs.org/5435 http://gerrit.openafs.org/5436 http://gerrit.openafs.org/5437 http://gerrit.openafs.org/5438 http://gerrit.openafs.org/5439 http://gerrit.openafs.org/5440 http://gerrit.openafs.org/5441 http://gerrit.openafs.org/5442 http://gerrit.openafs.org/5443 http://gerrit.openafs.org/5444 http://gerrit.openafs.org/5445 Throughout the entire development process of the AFS Redirector interface patches that made sense to push upstream early have been pushed. In fact all of the major architectural changes to support Unicode throughout, separate the SMB server from the underlying cache manager, optimize locking, etc. have been included in the 1.5.50 -> 1.6.0 releases. As a result the remaining changes to the prior build tree are quite minimal. This process was by design. A goal of this project has been to ensure that if something went horribly wrong with the new kernel drivers that it would be possible to easily fallback to the SMB interface without a re-install. Simply disable the AFSRedirector service and reboot will result in the SMB interface that we are all familiar with being used in place of the IFS driver. In addition to the AFS Redirector, a functional but yet incomplete set of Explorer Shell extension updates are being pushed. These include support for InfoTips and AFS specific property pages. These are not yet registered by the installer but can be manually activated using rundll32.exe extension registration. As described on the road map for more than a year, these patches will be committed and a new openafs-devel-1_7_x branch dedicated only to the refinement of the Windows redirector will be created. All future Unix development changes will continue to land on the master branch for incorporation in the 1.9.x series. When there is consensus that enough of the rough spots in the redirector have been smoothed the 1.7.x series will be promoted to 1.8.x and will become the new stable series for Windows. The next stable series for Unix will be 1.10.x or 2.0.x. Unless there is some objection from the community I am aiming to release 1.7.1 before the sun rises Friday morning. It was our hope that the AFS Redirector would have been production ready a long time ago. Especially given the problems that OpenAFS has experienced since the Windows 7 release. The review process that is being applied to the Windows redirector is being special cased in order to meet the needs of the community. As you will see in the patch sets above, the vast majority of the new code is standalone and isolated. It can be easily disabled at runtime and if necessary can be trivially removed from the source tree. More tomorrow... Jeffrey Altman
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