Windows NT File System Internals : A Developer's Guide

By Rajeev Nagar

"Windows NT File System Internals" presents the details of the NT I/O Manager, the Cache Manager, and the Memory Manager from the perspective of a software developer writing a file system driver or... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565922492
• ISBN13: 9781565922495
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 2.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.0" x 9.2"

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Very unique but has to be read with other recent materials.

This book is by far, one of my most favorite books. It has been the only complete text book that explains the details of the Windows NT File Systems Framework. If you are to buy the book these days you would not feel the value of the book as I felt it when I started reading it six years ago. Nowadays, there are some other literatures that provides deeper coverage for certain topics like the OSR materials and the first IFS conference (both are available as part of the IFS kit). But still, the book remains the only complete reference. To get most of the benefits of this book, it is better that you look at the FASTFAT source code that comes with the IFS kit. The main drawback of the book is the lack of deep coverage for network based file system drivers. OSR materials provided with the IFS kit are essential to have better knowledge about File System FILTER drivers. Read the book while watching the videos of the first IFS kit conference, this will help a lot. Finally, if you are new to file system drivers then, be more patient while reading the book. You would not get everything from the first reading.

Great info, but much repeating

This is certainy a must have for any Windows 32-bit file system developer. It reveals great secrets, make sense of the NT IFS chaos, and make Your IFS nightmares go away. It's a great book, but much of it is presented in most others, and that's the only bad thing )like memory managment, cachemamaner etc.). Thanks, RN.

Excellent Book - It deserves 5 stars.

Though this book was meant to teach about File system, it teaches more than what it promises. I had many questions in mind about NT. After reading this book, most of my questions are cleared. I strongly recommend this book to know more about NT. I really don't agree to rate this book with less than 5 stars. To believe me just try this book.

This is a serious implementors' book...

... despite the jacket's attempt to suggest an appeal to a wider audience. That said, if you are an implementor hoping to create a file system on NT, it's a god-send, since other sources of information on the subject (pretty much limited to Microsoft's undocumented IFS kit and various consulting groups) come with rather lofty price tags. I should confess that I'm writing this review because it happens to be convenient right now, even though I'm less than half-way through the book (hey, what do you want for free?). However, what I've seen so far is sufficiently polished, complete, and to all appearances authoritative that it instills a great deal of confidence, especially given the complexity of the subject. I'm less convinced that Microsoft will have the discipline to keep its 'internal' (but of course critical) interfaces stable over the course of time, but that's not the author's fault (and perhaps when they change they'll decide it's finally time to document them).