We have our own filesystem on Windows 2000/2003. It supports everything
from binary to regular files .

In Windows 2003 sp1 when I try to add a file to Firewall exception
list and the file resides on my filesystem , the windows doesn't let it
add the file. Whereas same file if present on NTFS or FAT32 can be
added to exception list.

I tried to look for FileMon output and looks like my Filesystem is
getting the same calls and returning with appropriate returns which are
same as NTFS.

Can somebody suggest if there is a imposed restriction from Microsoft
or I need to look for something special .


Thanks,
Neeraj

This tells me Windows doesn't recognize your "OWN" file system as well as
you think it does. File systems are at a very low-level of the OS kernel,
so unless you've modified and created your own version of ntkrnl??.exe
(where ?? corresponds to your number of processors - i.e. mp for
multiprocessor), then I doubt MS's delivered is going to work 100%, as
you've discovered.

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> We have our own filesystem on Windows 2000/2003. It supports everything
> from binary to regular files .
>
> In Windows 2003 sp1 when I try to add a file to Firewall exception
> list and the file resides on my filesystem , the windows doesn't let it
> add the file. Whereas same file if present on NTFS or FAT32 can be
> added to exception list.
>
> I tried to look for FileMon output and looks like my Filesystem is
> getting the same calls and returning with appropriate returns which are
> same as NTFS.
>
> Can somebody suggest if there is a imposed restriction from Microsoft
> or I need to look for something special .
>
>
> Thanks,
> Neeraj
>