Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:24:31 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers |
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Well, now they have finally caught up to Linux ......
Jeff
"Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > 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) > > -- > Mike A. Harris Linux advocate > Computer Consultant GNU advocate > Capslock Consulting Open Source advocate > > Join the FreeMWare project - the goal to produce a FREE program in > which you can run Windows 95/98/NT, and other operating systems. > > http://www.freemware.org > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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