WinFLUX: Extended Filesystems Project using Dokan
Nikhil Rane
We are the students of Pune Institute of Computer Technology located in Pune,India. We had started our work in the view of demonstrating that "Writing Filesystems in Windows Userspace is very easy!" and hence started implementing "Extended Filesystems (Ext2/Ext3)" in Windows Userspace using the Dokan library for supporting the above statement. The library has been very useful for us for catching the application interrupts and other support!
Currently the project has the following working modules on an Ext2 partition:
1. Verification
2. Mounting
3. Directory Listing
4. Reading
5. Writing.
And after this, we are targeting to implement the "Journaling" support so as to extend our scope to Ext3 Filesystem. The reason for us to write a mail to you is that we wanted our project to be listed as a "successful ongoing work" in your Dokan Google Group and Website. The details of our group members and email are as follows:
1. Nikhil Rane nikhi...@gmail.com
2. Pankaj Lagu panka...@gmail.com
3. Prasad Phadnis prasadr...@gmail.com
4. Sumitra Madhav sumitra...@gmail.com
There are some new things which are enlighted by our project which are as follows:
1. As mentioned in your "Readme" file, the Dokan Library is not limited to only support FAT and NTFS performance improvement but can also be used to implement other file
systems of user's own or the one's used in other operating systems.
2. Our implementation of Extended Filesystems show that Dokan can be used even if there is no inbuilt support for "inodes" which form the base for Extended Filesystems
implementation.
3. Our project brings around a paradigm shift in the type of filesystems which can be implemented using Dokan which were previously considered to be constrained only to FAT
and NTFS.
We are attaching the synopsis of our project with this mail. Please have a look and reply us at the earliest!
Thank You.
-Rane Nikhil
Pune Institute of Computer Technology,Pune.
Hiroki Asakawa
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Nikhil Rane <mast...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Hiroki Sir,
> We are the students of Pune Institute of Computer Technology
> located in Pune,India. We had started our work in the view of demonstrating
> that "Writing Filesystems in Windows Userspace is very easy!" and hence
> started implementing "Extended Filesystems (Ext2/Ext3)" in Windows Userspace
> using the Dokan library for supporting the above statement. The library has
> been very useful for us for catching the application interrupts and other
> support!
>
> Currently the project has the following working modules on an Ext2
> partition:
> 1. Verification
> 2. Mounting
> 3. Directory Listing
> 4. Reading
> 5. Writing.
>
> And after this, we are targeting to implement the "Journaling" support so as
> to extend our scope to Ext3 Filesystem. The reason for us to write a mail to
> you is that we wanted our project to be listed as a "successful ongoing
> work" in your Dokan Google Group and Website. The details of our group
> members and email are as follows:
Very interesting project. I'm interested in how you handle Linux's permission,
owner information on Windows. I'm looking forward your project updates.
You can edit the page by your self if you joined the dokan groups:
http://groups.google.com/group/dokan/web/filesystems-using-dokan
>
> 1. Nikhil Rane nikhi...@gmail.com
> 2. Pankaj Lagu panka...@gmail.com
> 3. Prasad Phadnis prasadr...@gmail.com
> 4. Sumitra Madhav sumitra...@gmail.com
>
> There are some new things which are enlighted by our project which are as
> follows:
>
> 1. As mentioned in your "Readme" file, the Dokan Library is not limited to
> only support FAT and NTFS performance improvement but can also be used to
> implement other file
> systems of user's own or the one's used in other operating systems.
> 2. Our implementation of Extended Filesystems show that Dokan can be used
> even if there is no inbuilt support for "inodes" which form the base for
> Extended Filesystems
> implementation.
> 3. Our project brings around a paradigm shift in the type of filesystems
> which can be implemented using Dokan which were previously considered to be
> constrained only to FAT
> and NTFS.
>
> We are attaching the synopsis of our project with this mail. Please have a
> look and reply us at the earliest!
> Thank You.
>
> --
> -Rane Nikhil
> Pune Institute of Computer Technology,Pune.
>
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Nikhil Rane
Thank you for your reply Sir. We are currently hosting our project on the popular Source Code hosting Websites. We will surely add our project links into the Dokan Google Groups page as we are done!