this is great news. I wish ASU had something to contribute to the effort.
I'd be glad to be a beta pig...

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Jeffrey Altman <[email protected]
> wrote:

> David Bear wrote:
> >
> > Is there any news on when we can kill for ever the SMB client and have a
> > pure IFS AFS client? I thought this was set to be release (in beta
> > version) last december?
>
> If I felt it was stable enough for general users to be putting on their
> system I would have released a beta.  Its not.  We ran into a fairly
> serious architectural design problem that Peter Scott and I had to
> correct.  That work is nearly complete.  Hopefully in a couple of weeks
> but no sooner than 1.5.58 I will be able to release a version of OpenAFS
> for Windows that is dual mode (SMB and IFS) selectable at install time.
>
> Jeffrey Altman
>
>


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