Re: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:00:54 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

>
> All,
>
> Here's the FS Control Dispatcher for the NT Version of NWFS on Windows
> 2000. You will note that there is an IRP for VERIFY_VOLUME. This is
> the code that actually recovers failing file systems (like FSCK on
> Linux). Since this interface not well documented, it's no surprise that
> Michael doesn't know about it.
>
> Please look over the attached.

Ouch... AndPeopleComplainThatUNIXIsNotTooEasyToRead... What on the
Earth does IRP stand for?

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