Creating a simple file system for Windows

In plain words

This is a file system project for Windows released in 2017. It provides basic file management functionality for the Windows operating system. The project is available on GitHub for developers and users interested in file system implementation. It targets people who want to understand or use alternative file system solutions on Windows.

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From the sources

In this tutorial we describe the process of creating a simple user mode file system using WinFsp. The file system we will create is called "passthrough", because it simply passes through the file system operations requested by the kernel to an underlying file system (usually NTFS). This tutorial assumes that you have WinFsp and Visual Studio 2015 installed. The WinFsp installer can be downloaded from the WinFsp GitHub repository: https://github.com/winfsp/winfsp . The Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015 can be downloaded for free from Microsoft’s web site. When installing WinFsp make sure to choose "Developer" to ensure that all necessary header and library files are included in the…from github.com

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