Re: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers

Michael Nelson (mikenel@iapetus.com)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:09:54 -0500 (EST)


> If NT really does what you describe... Well, small wonder that it's so
> bloated.

As far as I know, Chkdsk, the FS-specific checking DLLs, etc... are all
user mode code. I don't know what mechanism Jeff is referring to re: auto
invoking chkdsk on volume mounts, so I can't say how that's accomplished
(probably makes a callback to user mode to invoke the utilities).

-mike

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