When we're about to close a file (ie, forget everything about it
and release any associated structure), actually delay it.
This allows keep data fresh in memory for faster reuse in case
it would be required. The effective closing will only happen after some time.
For specific operations, this will produce a real speed up in ReactOS.
For instance, with that patch, Winamp starts within seconds, instead of dozen
of minutes.
In most cases, it will bring ReactOS to performances it had before fixing
the huge leak in FastFAT (commit 94ead99) without leaking the whole FS.
For now, due to regressions, this is only activated for files and not
for directories. Once it gets fixed, it will be enabled for both.
CORE-14826
CORE-14917
Until now, our support for dirty volumes was totally broken
to a point where, on FAT32 volume, the dirty couldn't even
be written nor read from the disk.
This commit totally rewrites its handling, for both FAT16 and FAT32
so that it's now fully functionnal. Furthermore, it also gets
totally compatible with our vfatlib, and thus, autochk.
Now, on mount, FastFAT will check if the volume is dirty or not, and
autochk will be able to ask for a repair if dirty. vfatlib will
repair the volume and remove the dirty bit. So that, on next
reboot, the volume will be mounted clean.
As a reminder, the dirty bit is set immediately after mounting
the volume, so that, if you crash or have a powercut, autochk
will always attempt to repair your volume (with more or less,
that's FAT!).
If you want to experience without breaking your FAT volume,
just boot, open a cmd prompt and type: fsutil dirty set c:
and reboot!
CORE-13758
CORE-13760
CORE-13759
This avoids initializing cache directly on directory
open/create.
The advantage is we reduce the load on cache manager
and on memory manager by avoiding creating everytime
a stream file object, and initializing cache for it.
This will avoid initializing cache for started
applications 'current directory' which is just opened
for having a valid handle but no read/write is performed
in it, by default.
This is a step forward for autochk.
CORE-14629
Before any write operation that would involve caching, ask
the cache controler whether writing would make it exceed its memory
consumption. If so, queue the write operation for later execution.
In case the write operation can wait, then, the FSD operation will be
halted until the write is allowed.
I could test it successfully by copying huge files from a FAT volume to
another. The write is halted until some portions of the file is written
to the disk.
I could also properly install Qt (SDK) on ReactOS with this and less than 1GB RAM:
- https://www.heisspiter.net/~Pierre/rostests/Qt_OS.png
- https://www.heisspiter.net/~Pierre/rostests/Qt_OS2.png
CORE-12081
CORE-14582
CORE-14313
This is a PoC of what it's possible to realize thanks to an
already existing hack in ntoskrnl :-).
With this extension, on the kdb:> prompt, you're able to type
in commands that will be handled by the FastFAT driver and not
by the kernel, allowing internal debug, not possible otherwise.
So far, three commands exist:
- ?fat.vols: lists all the mounted volumes by FastFAT
- ?fat.files: lists all the files on a specific volume (with their attributes)
- ?fat.setdbgfile: allows watching on specifics files lifetime
This is obviously only the begin and could be greatly improved.
For instance, this is what allowed to debug CORE-14557
leaves volumes in half-(dis)mounted state and thus they get remounted while not
completely dismounted.
This can lead to major breakage and data corruption.
This requires deeper fixes (let's just drop that driver!).
CORE-14124
CORE-14126
CORE-14133
