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- From: trevorl@ise.canberra.edu.au (Trevor Lawrence)
- Subject: Re: Info on NTFS internals ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.221029.12649@csc.canberra.edu.au>
- Sender: trevorl@ise.canberra.edu.au (Trevor Lawrence)
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- Organization: Info. Sci. and Eng., University of Canberra, AUSTRALIA
- References: <1992Nov04.053326.643@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 22:10:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov04.053326.643@microsoft.com> Alistair writes:
- >Please will you be much more specific about what things in NTFS
- >you are trying to learn
- >
- >Features? These are surfaced in the published Win32 API (though I
- >could summarise them again, as I have done before on this forum)
- >
- >On-Disk sector layout? This is not publicly available at this time
- >
- >Mechanisms involved in implementing its features? These live in the
- >code of the OS, and as such are competitive advantage for the OS, and
- >like other parts of the source code, are only available to licensees
- >
- >I think I am missing something, so please explain extactly what you
- >want to know, but don't have access to - and importantly, why (so that
- >I could make a case, if I need to get things changed)
- >
- >-- Alistair
-
- In the September 1989 issue of Microsoft System Journal a 13 page
- article by Ray Duncan was published giving the rationale and
- disk layout info for HPFS. That's the kind of information I'd
- like to see on NTFS. But it looks like Microsoft's going to
- clam up this time. Pity, but I won't be able to put details of a
- good example of a file system (if it is) before the hoards of
- Operating Systems students who pass by me each semester.
-
- Trevor
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