Reading Notebook: 23-February-11
Comments in italics are mine and express my own views, thoughts and opinions
Windows Internals by M. Russinovich, D. Solomon and A. Ionescu:
The distinction between class, port and miniport components in storage stack (pp. 646 - 647)
Example: disk.sys as a class driver, ataport.sys and atapi.sys as port and miniport drivers (pp. 647 - 448)
MPIO (multi path I/O), DSM (device-specific modules) and storage stack (pp. 649 - 650)
Old and new naming convention (DRX) for disk device objects (p. 650)
Win32 API disk drive naming (p. 651)
Partition device objects (p. 652)
Volume manager as a bus driver (p. 655)
System vs. boot volume (p. 660)
Volmgr.sys vs. Volmgrx.sys (p. 661)
The advantages of storing volume metadata in a file (p. 662)
Spanned, striped (RAID-0), mirrored (RAID-1), RAID-5 (striped with rotated parity) (pp. 662 - 667)