Mounts and signatures

All,

If you have two volumes the exact same; say an image copy. And I want to
mount this copy as a virtual disk via a new named device object. In the
past, as long as the DO was different, disk signatures made no
difference. As long as the volume is on a different DO.

I am concerned that in later hot fixes to W2K and XP may not allow this
anymore. I have a driver that on some newer W2K systems (newer meaning
SP and hot fixes), my virtual disk fails to mount; it did before these
changes.

Is the system (NTFS) preventing the disk with the same signature from
mounting?

Jamey Kirby
StorageCraft, inc.
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
www.storagecraft.com
760-846-7188


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I believe it is the disk manager that is dismounting the disk when it finds
a duplicate signature, it is not the file systems. Your going to have to
have a unique signature for each disk in order for them all to mount.

–Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Jamey Kirby [mailto:xxxxx@storagecraft.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 3:57 PM
To: File Systems Developers
Subject: [ntfsd] Mounts and signatures

All,

If you have two volumes the exact same; say an image copy. And I want to
mount this copy as a virtual disk via a new named device object. In the
past, as long as the DO was different, disk signatures made no difference.
As long as the volume is on a different DO.

I am concerned that in later hot fixes to W2K and XP may not allow this
anymore. I have a driver that on some newer W2K systems (newer meaning SP
and hot fixes), my virtual disk fails to mount; it did before these changes.

Is the system (NTFS) preventing the disk with the same signature from
mounting?

Jamey Kirby
StorageCraft, inc.
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
www.storagecraft.com
760-846-7188


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XP won’t even install if it finds two disks both the same. It yells at
you in the textmode setup screen. A real pain in the ass if you happen
to have dual-ported scsi systems.

-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Mark Cariddi
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 4:09 PM
To: File Systems Developers
Subject: [ntfsd] RE: Mounts and signatures

I believe it is the disk manager that is dismounting the disk
when it finds
a duplicate signature, it is not the file systems. Your
going to have to
have a unique signature for each disk in order for them all to mount.

–Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Jamey Kirby [mailto:xxxxx@storagecraft.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 3:57 PM
To: File Systems Developers
Subject: [ntfsd] Mounts and signatures

All,

If you have two volumes the exact same; say an image copy.
And I want to mount this copy as a virtual disk via a new
named device object. In the past, as long as the DO was
different, disk signatures made no difference. As long as the
volume is on a different DO.

I am concerned that in later hot fixes to W2K and XP may not
allow this anymore. I have a driver that on some newer W2K
systems (newer meaning SP and hot fixes), my virtual disk
fails to mount; it did before these changes.

Is the system (NTFS) preventing the disk with the same
signature from mounting?

Jamey Kirby
StorageCraft, inc.
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
www.storagecraft.com
760-846-7188


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