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From: "Douglas Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: NT [SCSI] class/filter driver equiv. for linux?
> > Are there any mechanisms or methods for linux that would be
> > equivalent (or even functionally similar) to a NT SCSI
> > class/filter driver?
>
> Since I am not familiar with the NT/W2K SCSI driver architecture
> I went looking and found this url:
> http://www.microsoft.com/DDK/DDKdocs/Win2k/01scsidr_7yg7.htm
>
> At first glance it looks a bit like STREAMS/TLI. How do the
> optional filter drivers get configured?
This is a pretty fair description. NT is heavily object oriented and
(from what I have read, not that I have tried any of this) is very much like
a stack of drivers that get pushed down onto a stack. You can write filter
drivers to "massage" the requests, and the filters can be at several levels.
At one level, the filters can sit inbetween user requests and a filesystem,
they can also sit between the filesystem and the device driver.
I guess in a certain respect the md driver is sort of a linux equivalent
of a filter, but it is a specific purpose filter. Something similar along
those lines could probably be done, I guess.
-Eric
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