Dear Ketor,
Congratulations, this is very interesting!
Sorry to ask the obvious question, but does Dokan provide the needed interface 
to write a block device client, i.e. an RBD client ?
Cheers, Dan

> On 07 Jan 2015, at 05:09, Ketor D <d.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> A new project ceph-dokan (https://github.com/ceph/ceph-dokan) is
> open-source to all now.
> You can access the cephfs on Windows directly using ceph-dokan, not by
> smb or whatever.
> And you will get the full experience and performance of cephfs on Windows now.
> 
> Here is something about this project you may want to know.
> 
>     Overview.
>         ceph-dokan is build on MinGW. It will provide ceph-dokan.exe
> and libcephfs.dll.
>         ceph-dokan.exe makes you use CephFS as a volume like your [C:] or 
> [D:].
>         libcephfs.dll is a lib you can write your own application using 
> CephFS.
> 
>      Features:
>         Support almost windows filesystem api's.
>         Support ACL from Linux.
>         Support CreateFile of temp file.
>         Support Microsoft Office file edit and save.
>         etc.
> 
>      Internal:
>         ceph-dokan is ported from upstream Ceph. It was first ported
> as a standalone Ceph Client and then portd to Cygwin. But Cygwin is
> too slowly and not native code so it was ported to MinGW later. And
> with dokan(like fuse), now ceph-dokan map cephfs as a volume on
> windows.
>         ceph-dokan is fully native win32 code and compiled by gcc. So
> its performace is very good. Also it use winsock2 instead of linux
> socket and select() instead of poll(). And etc....
> 
> Everyone who have experience on dokan, mingw, win32 can help to
> improve ceph-dokan by pull request or using ceph-devel mailing list.
> 
> Thanks!
> Ketor
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