[ros-kernel] NT-compatible filesystem mount mechanism

[Eric K. <ek...@rz...>]

Hi!

Hartmut Birr provided some useful hints about mounting filesystems in an
NT-compatible way. I modified ntoskrnl/io/create.c and
services/fs/vfat/fsctl.c to implement the NT-compatible mount mechanism.

Unfortunately ReactOS still doesn't boot properly. I found that the vfat-fs
driver starts searching for files from the boot sector instead of the root
directory. It seems that the start sector (or cluster) of the root directory
is not initialized properly but set to zero. The debug output in the mount
code returns the correct value for 'RootStart'.

I want to commit the required modifications so that anyone can check it. The
modifications can be enabled/disabled via '#define NT_MOUNT'.

Any ideas or comments?


Eric