-OpenAFS for Windows 1.3.72 Installation Notes
+OpenAFS for Windows 1.3.74 Installation Notes
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The OpenAFS for Windows product was very poorly maintained throughout the
dynamically constructed when the service starts. This mode is called
Freelance mode. Freelance mode is turned on by default.
-The contents of the
-fake "root.afs" volume are constructed dynamically as cells are accessed.
-When the fake "root.afs" volume is constructed it will only contain two
-mount points: a read-only and read-write mount point used to access the
-"root.cell" volume of the default AFS cell. Any attempt to access a
-valid cell name will automatically result in a new mount point
+The contents of the fake "root.afs" volume are constructed dynamically as
+cells are accessed. When the fake "root.afs" volume is constructed it will
+only contain two mount points: a read-only and read-write mount point used
+to access the "root.cell" volume of the default AFS cell. Any attempt to
+access a valid cell name will automatically result in a new mount point
being created in the fake "root.afs" volume. If the cellname begins with
a "." the mount point will be read-write; otherwise the mount point will
be read-only. These mount points are preserved in the registry at key:
+
HKLM\SOFTWARE\OpenAFS\Client\Freelance
Additional mount points may be manually created using the "fs mkmount"
command. Mount points may be removed using the "fs rmmount" command.
- fs mkmount \\AFS\all\athena.mit.edu root.cell athena.mit.edu
- fs mkmount \\AFS\all\.athena.mit.edu root.cell athena.mit.edu -rw
- fs rmmount \\AFS\all\athena.mit.edu
- fs rmmount \\AFS\all\.athena.mit.edu
+ >fs mkmount \\AFS\all\athena.mit.edu root.cell athena.mit.edu
+ >fs mkmount \\AFS\all\.athena.mit.edu root.cell athena.mit.edu -rw
+ >fs rmmount \\AFS\all\athena.mit.edu
+ >fs rmmount \\AFS\all\.athena.mit.edu
+
+Beginning in 1.3.74, the Freelance fake root.afs volume will support
+the creation of symlinks.
+
+ >symlink make \\afs\all\link \\afs\all\athena.mit.edu\user\j\a\jaltman
+
+ >symlink list \\afs\all\link
+ '\\afs\all\link' is a symlink to 'athena.mit.edu\user\j\a\jaltman'
+
+ >symlink rm \\afs\all\link
+
+The symlinks are stored in the registry at:
+
+ HKLM\SOFTWARE\OpenAFS\Client\Freelance\Symlinks
4. The OpenAFS for Windows client will use AFSDB DNS records to
such time as their organizations can provide a more permanent solution.
+25. The Status Cache (AFS Config Control Panel: Advanced Page) is defined
+to have a maximum number of entries. Each entry represents a single file
+or directory entry accessed within the AFS file system. When the maximum
+number of entries are allocated, entries will begin to be reused according
+to a least recently used (LRU) algorithm. If the number of files or
+directories being accessed repeatedly by your applications is greater then
+the maximum number of entries, your host will begin to experience thrashing
+of the Status Cache and all requests will result in network operations.
+
+If you are experiencing poor performance you might want to increase the
+maximum number of Status Cache entries. Each entry requires 164K. Only
+those entries which are used are allocated.
+
+
+26. "Netbios over TCP/IP" must be active on the machine in order for
+communication with the AFS Client Service to succeed. If "Netbios over
+TCP/IP" is disabled on the machine, then communication with the AFS Client
+Service will be impossible.
+
+
+27. The AFS Client Service and related binaries are digitally signed by
+"Secure Endpoints Inc." beginning with the 1.3.7400 release of OpenAFS
+for Windows. Starting in the 1.3.7500 release, the AFS Client Service
+will perform a run-time verification check to ensure that all AFS related
+DLLs loaded by the service match the same file version number and were
+signed by the same entity. This check has been added to prevent the
+stability problems caused by more then one version of AFS being installed
+on a machine at the same time. Many hours of support time have been wasted
+tracking down problems caused by the mixture of files from different
+releases.
+
+The registry.txt file documents the "VerifyServiceSignature" registry
+value which can be used to disable the signature check. The file version
+check cannot be disabled.
+
+
+28. The maximum cache size is approximately 1.3GB. This is the largest
+contiguous block of memory in the 2GB process address space which can be
+used for the memory mapped file. Due to fragmentation of the process
+spaced caused by the digital signature verification code, any attempt to
+specify a cache size greater then 700MB will result in the automatic
+disabling of the signature check.
+
+
+29. OpenAFS for Windows implements an SMB server which is used as a
+gateway to the AFS filesystem. Because of the use of SMB, Windows
+stores all files into AFS using the OEM code pages such as CP437 (United
+States) or CP850 (Western Europe). These code pages are incompatible
+with the ISO Latin-1 character set typically used as a default on Unix
+systems in both the United States and Western Europe. Filenames stored
+by OpenAFS for Windows are therefore unreadable on Unix systems if they
+include any of the following characters:
+
+ [Ç] 128 08/00 200 80 C cedilla
+ [ü] 129 08/01 201 81 u diaeresis
+ [é] 130 08/02 202 82 e acute
+ [â] 131 08/03 203 83 a circumflex
+ [ä] 132 08/04 204 84 a diaeresis
+ [à] 133 08/05 205 85 a grave
+ [å] 134 08/06 206 86 a ring
+ [ç] 135 08/07 207 87 c cedilla
+ [ê] 136 08/08 210 88 e circumflex
+ [ë] 137 08/09 211 89 e diaeresis
+ [è] 138 08/10 212 8A e grave
+ [ï] 139 08/11 213 8B i diaeresis
+ [î] 140 08/12 214 8C i circumflex
+ [ì] 141 08/13 215 8D i grave
+ [Ä] 142 08/14 216 8E A diaeresis
+ [Å] 143 08/15 217 8F A ring
+ [É] 144 09/00 220 90 E acute
+ [æ] 145 09/01 221 91 ae diphthong
+ [Æ] 146 09/02 222 92 AE diphthong
+ [ô] 147 09/03 223 93 o circumflex
+ [ö] 148 09/04 224 94 o diaeresis
+ [ò] 149 09/05 225 95 o grave
+ [û] 150 09/06 226 96 u circumflex
+ [ù] 151 09/07 227 97 u grave
+ [ÿ] 152 09/08 230 98 y diaeresis
+ [Ö] 153 09/09 231 99 O diaeresis
+ [Ü] 154 09/10 232 9A U diaeresis
+ [ø] 155 09/11 233 9B o slash
+ [£] 156 09/12 234 9C Pound sterling sign
+ [Ø] 157 09/13 235 9D O slash
+ [×] 158 09/14 236 9E Multiplication sign
+ [] 159 09/15 237 9F Florin sign
+
+As of 1.3.75, a new registry value, HKLM\SOFTWARE\OpenAFS\Client
+"StoreAnsiFilenames" can be set to instruct OpenAFS for Windows to store
+filenames using the ANSI Code Page instead of the OEM Code Page. The ANSI
+Code Page is a compatible superset of Latin-1. This setting is not the
+default setting because making this change would prevent OpenAFS for Windows
+from being able to access filenames containing the above characters.
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