Re: Urgent! Anyone could give me a picture of openafs client for windows architecture?
hedgepiggy <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:07:37 -0700 (PDT)
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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) >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Urgent%21-Anyone-could-give-me-a-picture-of-openafs-client-for-windows-architecture--tp23215059p23219715.html Sent from the OpenAFS - Windows Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.