We have a set of data that we would like to present to users as if the data
were directories and files. We are running Win2K.
We cannot actually put the data on the windows disks as it is well into the
terabytes, we would only want to serve up the data as the users open the
“files”.
We would also want users to be able to save files into our virtual disk.
(Just to explain we have our own very large raid arrays on bespoke hardware
that are storing High Definition video clips. We want users to be able to
access each frame of video data as if it were a file. This would allow them
to edit the files in normal windows painting packages etc.)
Our skill level is that we have developed Device Drivers for Win2K that use
DMA etc. for our own hardware, but not anything much beyond that.
So far I have looked at:
writing a filter driver using the IFSKit (yet to buy the kit though)
writing a new network redirector
the ramdisk sample that comes with the DDK
using SAMBA on linux and re-writing the backend so that it exposes our
data.
Any comments / suggestions / URLs would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
James Cain
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