tir, 2002-04-16 kl. 09:45 skrev Aliberti Emanuele:
> >3) It seems that when a new hive is created because it does not exist,
> >CmiPopulateHive() is called to fill out the hive with 50 empty
> >pages/blocks, growing the file to 200K. Is that really necessary? It
> >would be nice to keep the files size down. When I exported a small hive
> >from 2k, it was only 8K.
>
> For internal lab testing, we once booted a NT 4.0 box after completely removing the hives.
> The system goes up anyway and creates the full hive set, but the files are onyl 4 kbyte large. Shortly after, the system hangs (of course).
> A memory page just fits for the hive's header.
Yes, a newly created registry hive contain only the base block (the
first 4KB). CmiPopulateHive() is meant only for testing write support
(which is not there yet). Expanding a hive requires new functionality,
so it is easier if the hives do not need to be expanded when
implementing write support.
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