Re: [ros-dev] WinSocket support?

[Johannes Thoma]

Hi Thomas,

It didn't work with diskpart unfortunately but I will find a solution. I will
keep you updated on the WinDRBD port for ReactOS, this is an exciting
project ...

Best regards,

- Johannes

Am 02.03.22 um 17:56 schrieb Thomas Faber:
>   We have 'diskpart', but I'm not sure how
> capable it is for things like that.
>
>
>  On 2022-03-01 10:27, Johannes Thoma wrote:
> >   Hi Thomas,
> >
> >  Thank you for your fast answer. I now got WinDRBD running without networking
> >  support (which is just a proof of concept, DRBD is a network storage replication
> >  driver) but at least the driver loads and does something.
> >
> >  I couldn't find a way to create paritions on an empty disk, I tried diskpart but it
> >  failed to create the partition (there is no partition table on the disk yet). What is
> >  the ReactOS way to create paritions (I also tried fdisk but it didn't exist)?
> >
> >  Best regards,
> >
> >  - Johannes
> >
> >  Am 01.03.22 um 02:25 schrieb Thomas Faber:
> > >   Hi Johannes,
> > >
> > >  ReactOS does not currently support WSK, nor is any work on it in progress or planned.
> > >  Our network stack is unfortunately unstable enough even with just TDI,
> > >  so any efforts in networking typically go towards stabilization.
> > >
> > >  TDI itself is supported, so if you were to work on a library that implements the WSK
> > > interface on top of TDI, you might have a chance of it working. However, the kernel-mode
> > > interface is not particularly well tested, as AFD (which implements user mode sockets) is
> > > currently the only consumer. So even if you get it to work in Windows Server 2003,
> > > you're likely to encounter bugs in ReactOS.
> > >  We'd of course be happy to get any reports of bugs you run into.
> > >
> > >  Best,
> > >  Thomas
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  On 2022-02-28 15:05, johannes(a)johannesthoma.com wrote:
> > > > Dear ReactOS developers,
> > > >
> > > > I am working on WinDRBD (https://github.com/LINBIT/windrbd), which is a
> > > > port of the Linux DRBD 9 driver to the Windows family of operating systems.
> > > > Technically it is a compatibility layer for the Linux kernel functions that DRBD
> > > > uses.
> > > >
> > > > I am currently researching if WinDRBD can be ported to Windows Server 2003
> > > > and also to ReactOS and found that the networking API we are using (WinSocket)
> > > > is only supported by Windows Vista (0x600) and up. Porting WinDRBD to ReactOS
> > > > would require using the TDI interface instead (everything else "should"
> > > work,
> > > > however I couldn't test it because it does not load currently into ReactOS).
> > > >
> > > > My question is is there any ongoing effort to implement a WinSocket API?
> > > > If yes what is the status of this implementation?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any insights,
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > >
> > > > - Johannes
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