Very basic question, please indulge

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I am not a developer but am posting here in the hopes that someone can
direct me to a good resource for learning.

I have used the filemon utility alot in troubleshooting, and it has been
helpful. However, although I can make educated guesses, I do not know what
much of the information in the log is referring to. I ended up here after
searching for commands like FASTIO_QUERY_OPEN and IRP_MJ_CLOSE.

What I really want to know is if there is a resource somewhere that can tell
me what these mean. I don’t even know what language they are. If anyone
could direct me to a book or a website, I would greatly appreciate it.

Please don’t flame me I’m just trying to learn something.

Thanks,

M.

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http://msdn.microsoft.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of McDonald Maureen
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 10:42 AM
To: File Systems Developers
Subject: [ntfsd] Very basic question, please indulge

I am not a developer but am posting here in the hopes that someone can
direct me to a good resource for learning.

I have used the filemon utility alot in troubleshooting, and it has been
helpful. However, although I can make educated guesses, I do not know
what
much of the information in the log is referring to. I ended up here
after
searching for commands like FASTIO_QUERY_OPEN and IRP_MJ_CLOSE.

What I really want to know is if there is a resource somewhere that can
tell
me what these mean. I don’t even know what language they are. If
anyone
could direct me to a book or a website, I would greatly appreciate it.

Please don’t flame me I’m just trying to learn something.

Thanks,

M.

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Start by reading a book on drivers for Windows. If you are interested in
file systems, you actually want to avoid newer driver books (which talk
about WDM drivers and are less applicable to file system drivers). If you
can find an out-of-print copy of O’Reilly’s book on file systems by Rajeev
Nagar, (last time I saw a copy for sale it was $80, which is considerably
more than it was new) that’s good as well. Our book (Viscarola/Mason) is
also a good grounding in how drivers worked in NT 4.0 (which is surprisingly
more relevant to file systems in 2K, XP and .NET, than current driver books
would be in general.)

This is a rich, diverse, and complex niche. Everyone who uses a Windows
NT/2000/XP/.NET system will be using one or more file systems, most of them
without ever realizing it (which means we’ve done our job right!)

Best of luck.

Regards,

Tony

Tony Mason
Consulting Partner
OSR Open Systems Resources, Inc.
http://www.osr.com

Hope to see you at the next OSR file systems class in San Jose, CA September
16, 2002!

-----Original Message-----
From: McDonald Maureen [mailto:xxxxx@erac.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:42 PM
To: File Systems Developers
Subject: [ntfsd] Very basic question, please indulge

I am not a developer but am posting here in the hopes that someone can
direct me to a good resource for learning.

I have used the filemon utility alot in troubleshooting, and it has been
helpful. However, although I can make educated guesses, I do not know what
much of the information in the log is referring to. I ended up here after
searching for commands like FASTIO_QUERY_OPEN and IRP_MJ_CLOSE.

What I really want to know is if there is a resource somewhere that can tell
me what these mean. I don’t even know what language they are. If anyone
could direct me to a book or a website, I would greatly appreciate it.

Please don’t flame me I’m just trying to learn something.

Thanks,

M.

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Thanks very much Tony! This is good information and your book looks like a
good place to start.
Thanks again everyone,
M.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Mason [mailto:xxxxx@osr.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:57 PM
To: File Systems Developers
Subject: [ntfsd] RE: Very basic question, please indulge

Start by reading a book on drivers for Windows. If you are interested in
file systems, you actually want to avoid newer driver books (which talk
about WDM drivers and are less applicable to file system drivers). If you
can find an out-of-print copy of O’Reilly’s book on file systems by Rajeev
Nagar, (last time I saw a copy for sale it was $80, which is considerably
more than it was new) that’s good as well. Our book (Viscarola/Mason) is
also a good grounding in how drivers worked in NT 4.0 (which is surprisingly
more relevant to file systems in 2K, XP and .NET, than current driver books
would be in general.)

This is a rich, diverse, and complex niche. Everyone who uses a Windows
NT/2000/XP/.NET system will be using one or more file systems, most of them
without ever realizing it (which means we’ve done our job right!)

Best of luck.

Regards,

Tony

Tony Mason
Consulting Partner
OSR Open Systems Resources, Inc.
http://www.osr.com

Hope to see you at the next OSR file systems class in San Jose, CA September
16, 2002!

-----Original Message-----
From: McDonald Maureen [mailto:xxxxx@erac.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:42 PM
To: File Systems Developers
Subject: [ntfsd] Very basic question, please indulge

I am not a developer but am posting here in the hopes that someone can
direct me to a good resource for learning.

I have used the filemon utility alot in troubleshooting, and it has been
helpful. However, although I can make educated guesses, I do not know what
much of the information in the log is referring to. I ended up here after
searching for commands like FASTIO_QUERY_OPEN and IRP_MJ_CLOSE.

What I really want to know is if there is a resource somewhere that can tell
me what these mean. I don’t even know what language they are. If anyone
could direct me to a book or a website, I would greatly appreciate it.

Please don’t flame me I’m just trying to learn something.

Thanks,

M.

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