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"Pascal Damman" wrote:
> Hi Sulagna,
>
> There is no particular "sector" where the configuration is
> written to,
> unless you mean the configuration of the disks (e.g. which
> disks in a RAID-5
> set, which is stored on the RAID controller AND on the disks).
>
> The "cluster configuration" is stored in the "file" ClusDB. To
> get
> information doing a "raw read", you have to consider the
> following things:
> - you can't do a raw read when the system is online (Boot
> partition is in
> use exclusively by the system)
> - You have to know NTFS
> - When you change one bit, you certainly will have to restore
> the database
>
> Everything on an NTFS volume is stored in files, and to find
> the ClusDB
> file, you will have to find, open and search the NTFS
> metafiles, and know the
> structure of the disk (e.g. sectors/cluster). In the book
> "Windows Internals,
> 4th edition"
> (http://www.sysinternals.com/windowsinternals.shtml) NTFS is
> explained, but there may be more comprehensive books
> particular for the file
> system.
>
> If you can manage all this, you're the BEST!!!
>
> --
> Chau chau,
>
> Pascalos
>
>
> "Sulagna" wrote:
>
> > "Pascal Damman" wrote:
> > > If you mean: How many sectors per cluster:
> > > That will be the very first sector on the
> partition
> > > The indexes of the files (NTFS) are located in the
> metafiles
> > > (hidden)
> > >
> > > If you mean cluster as in "MSCS":
> > > In the registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINECluster), and
> > > C:WIN...ClusterClusDB
> > >
> > > --
> > > Chau chau,
> > >
> > > Pascalos
> > >
> > >
> > > "Sulagna" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > Could anybody tell me ,which specific
> sectors on the disk is
> > > Cluster
> > > > configuration written to?
> > > >
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> >
> > Hi,
> > Thanks,I meant the second one.Clusdb is fine but what I
> meant was, if
> > I were to do a raw read of the disk, which specific sectors
> or sector
> > range on disk is the cluster configuration written on to?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sulagna
> >
Hi,
I have one more question.Can one of the shared disks be the boot disk
too in case of a cluster setup?That is, in order that the cluster
comes up, the disk thru which I boot, can it also be one of the shared
resources?
Regards
Sulagna
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