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This might sound like a dismissive question, so I should say upfront that I don't mean it to be. I'm truly curious and not overly familiar with this technology

This might sound like a dismissive question, so I should say upfront that I don't mean it to be. I'm truly curious and not overly familiar with this technology. With that said... What is this for? What itch were you attempting to scratch which lead you to create this? How could it be useful in a project? / What sorts of projects would it it lend itself to?

billziss 8y ago
I think it is a perfectly legitimate question. I had two reasons for creating this: a practical one and a theoretical one. The practical one is that I wanted to be able to store disk data in a cloud storage bucket (i.e. "format" a bucket with NTFS and use it as a disk). For various reasons I did not want to build this as a WinFsp or FUSE file system. The theoretical one is that I am exploring the possibility of writing a new OS where all/most IO/services/etc. could be implemented either in kernel mode or user mode. Not bolt it onto an existing OS like I have done with WinFsp and WinSpd, but build the OS like this from the ground up. To finish here are some use cases for WinSpd as food for thought: - Mounting virtual disks in a format other than VHD. - Mounting a cloud storage bucket as a disk. - Serving a read-only disk from an internet location for use by multiple users. - Tracking disk I/O for backup, snapshotting or other purposes.
- jscholes 8y ago
  Great reply, thanks! I did wonder if this would be useful for integration with things like cloud storage, so good to hear that it was one of your primary driving factors.