Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:01:04 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Khimenko Victor wrote:
>>> > 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). >>> >>> -mike >>> > >> Windows, here, both 95 and NT just do a chkdsk upon startup. Windows >> doesn't have the notion of "mount". Maybe Win-2000 will have, but >> nothing I've seen yet does. > >What you are saying ? OF COURSE 9X & NT HAS mount syscall. There are no >mount utility, it's right, but mount syscall is there. And it will return >to you is chkdsk/scandisk is needed (that is driver was not unmounted cleanly). >Just like in Linux. The only difference is that you can mount something only >on drive letter and not in directory...
Actually, from what I was just reading about Windows 2000, Microsoft is adding a new innovative feature that they single handedly came up with that allows you to "splice" a filesystem onto a directory point.
I read that the reason was to do away with drive letters. So, hats off to Microsoft for inventing this new concept of "splicing" filesystems onto directories.
;o)
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