Installable File System

The Installable File System (IFS) is a filesystem API in IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows that enables the operating system to recognize and load drivers for file systems. It is part of the Windows Driver Kit.

Bibliography

• O'Reilly - Windows NT File System Internals, A Developer's Guide - By Rajeev Nagar - ISBN 1-56592-249-2
• Microsoft Press - Inside Windows NT File System - By Helen Custer - ISBN 1-55615-660-X
• Microsoft Press - Inside Windows NT - By Helen Custer - ISBN 1-55615-481-X

See also

• Virtual file system

External links

• Microsoft's IFSKit

ext2/ext3

• Ext2 file system driver for windows 2000/XP/Vista (x86/amd64) (supports writing/multiple codepages, ext3 htree, journal support new in 0.50)
• ext2 IFS for Windows NT (Read only)
• Ext2IFS / Another ext2-3 IFS for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 (Read/Write; support for UTF-8 file names and ext3 htree; ext3 journal not supported )

ReiserFS

• ReiserFS IFS for Windows NT (Read only)

HFS

• Commercial HFS IFS for Windows NT

OS/2

• HFS IFS for OS/2
• NTFS and FAT IFS for OS/2
• FTP server offering IFS drivers for OS/2

Другие

• Solid File System - (SolFS) cross-platform single-file virtual filesystem with encryption and compression
• Callback File System - SDK that lets developers create installable virtual file systems for Windows in user mode
• RomFS - Windows driver examples
• WinFUSE (недоступная ссылка) - a .NET based Filesystem in USErspace framework that uses SMB instead of IFS
• Dokan - a user mode filesystem toolkit by means of an IFS proxy driver