[OpenAFS] Re: "OpenAFS for Windows development road map" was Re: [OpenAFS] 1.4.1-rc2 build question

2005-12-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:26 AM -0500 12/3/05, Jeffrey Altman wrote: What I am reading in this thread is that people are afraid of the unknown. No, I am afraid of my user community. They are a known quantity, and I know I have reason to be afraid... They vary greatly in what they use AFS for, and in how much

[OpenAFS] Re: "OpenAFS for Windows development road map" was Re: [OpenAFS] 1.4.1-rc2 build question

2005-12-04 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Saturday, December 03, 2005 01:26:57 AM -0500 Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Jan 2006 - Stable Windows client with byte range locking that is mandatory to use I have a better idea. I'll decide when byte-range locking support is mandatory for my users to use. I can thi

[OpenAFS] Re: "OpenAFS for Windows development road map" was Re: [OpenAFS] 1.4.1-rc2 build question

2005-12-04 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Saturday, December 03, 2005 01:26:57 AM -0500 Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of the points that I am attempting to make is that the rate of change in the Windows client is going to continue to out pace the rate of change in the Unix-based implementations for at least the ne

RE: [OpenAFS] Re: "OpenAFS for Windows development road map" was Re: [OpenAFS] 1.4.1-rc2 build question

2005-12-04 Thread ted creedon
Do you ever sleep? Its 10:47 in Anchorage... tedc ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

RE: [OpenAFS] Re: "OpenAFS for Windows development road map" was Re: [OpenAFS] 1.4.1-rc2 build question

2005-12-05 Thread ted creedon
If the MIT presentation at the CMU Conference was on the web.. People would understand that 10E? of users rely on the windows client. Reliability is not an option. BTW: Are the CMU talks ever going to be posted? tedc ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list Ope

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: "OpenAFS for Windows development road map" was Re: [OpenAFS] 1.4.1-rc2 build question

2005-12-05 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: On Saturday, December 03, 2005 01:26:57 AM -0500 Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Jan 2006 - Stable Windows client with byte range locking that is mandatory to use I have a better idea. I'll decide when byte-range locking support is mandatory for m

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: "OpenAFS for Windows development road map" was Re: [OpenAFS] 1.4.1-rc2 build question

2005-12-05 Thread Matthew Cocker
Jeffrey Unfortunately in an MS environment where the users have been trained to work with a windows fileserver and everything is done via shared excel/word/access documents, persistent file corruption results if I move their home directories to AFS at the moment, which means recovery from tape. T