Windows fiesystems basics

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Hi to all,

I am a graduate student at the State University of New York at Stony
Brook. I have been working on Linux filesystem development as part of my
coursework as well as my interest.

I got to know about this group for Windows filesystem development. Please
advise me as to what would be the best way to get to learn about Windows
filesystems basics, so that I will be able to learn/contribute to this.
Also please let me know as to how I can proceed with programming for
developing tweaks to the filesystem.

Awaiting your replies,

Regards,
Avinash.

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Read the FAQ first.

“Avinash Ramanath” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntfsd…
>
> Hi to all,
>
> I am a graduate student at the State University of New York at Stony
> Brook. I have been working on Linux filesystem development as part of my
> coursework as well as my interest.
>
> I got to know about this group for Windows filesystem development. Please
> advise me as to what would be the best way to get to learn about Windows
> filesystems basics, so that I will be able to learn/contribute to this.
> Also please let me know as to how I can proceed with programming for
> developing tweaks to the filesystem.
>
> Awaiting your replies,
>
> Regards,
> Avinash.
>
>

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If you can get your hands on it (it is apparently worth more than it’s
weight in gold now) “Windows NT File System Internals” by Nagar is also
a good thing to read for starters, IMHO. Check out all the osronline
articles as well.

Matt

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Subject: [ntfsd] Windows fiesystems basics

Hi to all,

I am a graduate student at the State University of New York at Stony
Brook. I have been working on Linux filesystem development as part of my
coursework as well as my interest.

I got to know about this group for Windows filesystem development.
Please advise me as to what would be the best way to get to learn about
Windows filesystems basics, so that I will be able to learn/contribute
to this. Also please let me know as to how I can proceed with
programming for developing tweaks to the filesystem.

Awaiting your replies,

Regards,
Avinash.

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> I got to know about this group for Windows filesystem development. Please

advise me as to what would be the best way to get to learn about Windows
filesystems basics, so that I will be able to learn/contribute to this.

IFS kit is a must.

It contains the header files with the necessary kernel functions declared, the
documentation, real-world FASTFAT and CDFS as samples, real-world RDBSS with
simplified MRXSMB also as samples.

Rajeev Nagar’s book is also needed very much.

Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
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http://www.storagecraft.com