PIDL Me This: The Explorer Storage Architecture

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marcmill — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 04:33:55 GMT

"Item", by the way, is pronounced "Idem", the 'T' is soft.

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Lonnie McCullough — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 08:40:16 GMT

This is great stuff!

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Sean McLeod — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:33:14 GMT

Something I've wondered about is the trade off between a shell namespace provider versus implementing a filesystem provider for these sorts of situations.

I guess it's less work and easier to write a user mode shell namespace provider as opposed to writing a kernel mode filesystem provider.

What may be useful is if the IO system provided a mechanism to write usermode filesystem providers.

So for example I won't be able to in Vista:

cd virtualfolders\authors
dir

Since this feature relies on a shell namespace provider as opposed to a filesystem provider. The only real example I've seen of a filesystem provider for something like this is from Exchange where you could map a drive to your Exchange store.

re: PIDL Me This: The Explorer Storage Architecture

bg — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:53:52 GMT

what sort of junction does the zip file extension create?

Of the 3 (irc) talked about in the docs I've never been able to work out which of those it was.

bg

re: PIDL Me This: The Explorer Storage Architecture

marcmill — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 03:43:41 GMT

Sean -- cool idea to have a usermode filesystem provider...I have no idea how difficult/easy this would be to implement. Clearly, there are places already where the kernel calls back into usermode. This would make an interesting research project :-)

bg -- See HKCR\Compressed\CLSID -- this is the CLSID of the IShellFolder handler for .ZIP files.

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