Re: Writing File System Driver & Creating Virtual Disk Drive in Windows XP [Question by a Novice]

Full-blown filesystem drivers are extremely complicated and involve a lot of subtleties relating to getting things like locking and right with the rest of the system. I would not recommend it as a first project for someone new to Windows kernel programming.

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Ken Johnson (Skywing)
Windows SDK MVP
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"Ashish13" <ashishbagate13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1168195001.753632.308120@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

I am new to Windows Device Drivers/Internals.


We (a group of friends) want to do a project for windows XP, which can
be summarised as follows


1. When our code will run, it will identify all the hard-disk
partitions, and will detect the file systems in the each partition
2. After that, for ReiserFS partitions, ( virtual ) drives [like C: D:
etc.] will be created, which can be seen in Windows Explorer.
3. When user will double click on this drive or directories/files in
this drive a reiserfs-read-call [coded by us in this utility] will be
called to read the contents of the directory/files.


Thus an user can browse ReiserFS (a linux file system) from Windows XP
in windows explorer.


*** So Question is How To proceed about writing such kind of File
System Driver?
*** How much time will be required to code such a driver?


Please help, suggest some links because we all are new to this type of
work.


Thanking You and Hoping for reply,
Ashish


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