| DRV350: Windows Local File System Drivers |
This seminar presents the required design details of local file system drivers for Windows. Level Advanced Audience Developers who need to write or maintain Windows File System Drivers. Description In this seminar you will learn the required and optional components of full File System Drivers for Windows 2000 through Windows 7. We will begin with a review of the operating system architecture, the implementation of I/O requests, and other foundation principles. We will then introduce the components of a file system driver, starting with things that will be familiar from previous driver environments such as Dispatch routines and I/O completion callback routines, covering in some detail all of the required file system driver routines, and briefly introducing the optional routines. We will then walk through a simple file system driver, presented to the class as a complete (though not necessarily error-free) source code example, and trace several common I/O paths through the code. The class will then load the sample driver on their machines and explore a few of its functions with the debugger. The subsequent seminar modules will use this sample driver as a starting point, both for discussion and for lab exercises. Operating system kernel, I/O manager, and driver architecture overview Key operating system facilities File system driver model and architecture Simple file system driver walkthrough Installing a file system driver (the file system recognizer) Building and debugging Required file system driver functions File create, close, cleanup, etc. Directory and file name operations File read and write functions
Fast I/O interface Security Optional file system functions Additional design considerations
Prerequisites DRV201: Core WDM Device Drivers, or equivalent knowledge and experience Windows versions Windows 7, Server 2008, Vista, Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Duration and formats 5 days with labs
3 days lecture only | 
