Re: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
11 Nov 1999 04:47:04 GMT

Followup to: <382A258F.B8827D52@timpanogas.com>
By author: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
>
> Mike,
>
> NT is a microkernel, and you are correct, the complexity of the NT FS
> drivers is about 100 times what's in Linux. By way of example, just the
> Read-Only version of the NT file system for NWFS IFS code is almost
> three times the size as the core code of NWFS itself. What I open
> source on Linux is this core. The NT R/W IFS is even more complex, and
> uses structured expection handling and just the IFS portion for Windows
> 2000 is five times the size of the NWFS core. The unwind cases dealing
> with C++ exceptions raised in the NT kernel are mind-numbing.
>
> Jeff
>

The horror, the horror...

-hpa

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