Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:29:31 -0500 (EST) | From | James R Bruce <> | Subject | Re: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers |
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Excerpts from internet.computing.linux-kernel: 10-Nov-99 Re: Getting IOCTL's into VF.. by Michael Nelson@iapetus.c > > If NT really does what you describe... Well, small wonder that it's so > > bloated. > > As far as I know, Chkdsk, the FS-specific checking DLLs, etc... are all > user mode code. I don't know what mechanism Jeff is referring to re: auto > invoking chkdsk on volume mounts, so I can't say how that's accomplished > (probably makes a callback to user mode to invoke the utilities).
What about a user level library of tools for each FS, kind of like how Imlib handles different image file formats? That keeps the code in user mode but would allow generic tools.
- Jim Bruce
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