> Why don’t I/O Manager treat every kind of device equally without
discrimination ?
I think I/O manager does that way. But the file systems
(with rules full of MAY’s, MAYBE’s and MUST NOT’s
complicate the development process)
The FS development would be much easier, if they were
fixed rules, that every file system and filter must obey
(without exceptions for network file systems,
third-party redirectors, filters switching stack,
locking in their own way etc).
L.