2 # Captive project doc TODO page Perl template.
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19 package project::captive::doc::TODO;
20 require 5.6.0; # at least 'use warnings;' but we need some 5.6.0+ modules anyway
21 our $VERSION=do { my @r=(q$Revision$=~/\d+/g); sprintf "%d.".("%03d"x$#r),@r; };
31 BEGIN { Wuse 'project::captive::doc::Macros'; }
32 project::captive::doc::Macros->init(
33 "title"=>'Captive NTFS Developer Documentation: TODO',
34 "rel_prev"=>'CallType.pm',
35 "rel_next"=>'Related.pm',
42 <h1 id="todo_fsck">TODO: Fsck of NTFS</h1>
44 <p>Currently this project does not support checking of data structures
45 of NTFS volume as being provided by <span class="command">chkdsk.exe</span>
46 in W32 environment and <span class="command">fsck</span> in UNIX OS.</p>
48 <p>W32 has its disk checking functionality split to
49 <span class="fname">untfs.dll</span> W32 userland library.
51 @{[ a_href 'http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/fmifs.shtml',
52 'Chkdskx and Formatx' ]}
53 by @{[ a_href 'http://www.sysinternals.com/aboutus.shtml',
54 'Mark Russinovich' ]}.</p>
56 <p>I assume its execution falls completely
57 @{[ a_href 'Architecture.pm#existing_emulation','out of scope' ]}
58 of this project as it is W32 userland.</p>
60 <p>This possibility was not yet investigated in any way.</p>
63 <h1 id="todo_surprise">TODO: NTFS Support for
64 <span class="productname">@{[ a_href '/project/surprise/','Partition Surprise' ]}</span></h1>
66 <p>There already exists
67 <span class="productname">@{[ a_href 'http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html','ntfsresize' ]}</span>
68 using reverse-engineered data structures information. According to the
69 usage count it appears
70 <span class="productname">@{[ a_href 'http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html','ntfsresize' ]}</span>
74 <span class="productname">@{[ a_href 'http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html','ntfsresize' ]}</span>
75 still has some usage limitations such as no possibility to shrink the partition to less
76 than its half size. There exists technically interesting possibility to use Captive NTFS access for
77 <span class="productname">@{[ a_href '/project/surprise/','Partition Surprise' ]}</span>
78 as it is the only partition manager capable of disk operations
79 by using just the original W32 filesystem driver by full rebuild of the
81 Almost no file data blocks would be needed to move even when using these generic W32 filesyste drivers
82 as W32 supports <span class="constant">FSCTL_MOVE_FILE</span> request
84 @{[ a_href 'http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/info/defrag.shtml',
85 'Inside Windows NT Disk Defragmenting' ]}
86 by @{[ a_href 'http://www.sysinternals.com/aboutus.shtml',
87 'Mark Russinovich' ]}.</p>