From: Jamey Kirby [jkirby@storagecraft.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 1:40 PM
To: Akhil kaushik; ntdev@atria.com
Subject: RE: [ntdev] Shutdown procedure of windows NT. 

You will not recieve a shutdown for partition devices. The FSD will intercept this call and NOT send it to the disk driver.
    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-ntdev@atria.com [mailto:owner-ntdev@atria.com]On Behalf Of Akhil kaushik
    Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 6:27 AM
    To: ntdev@atria.com
    Subject: [ntdev] Shutdown procedure of windows NT. 
    
    
    
    
    
    hi all,
    I have a driver sitting beneath FSDs and above disk drivers. At system shutdown, I want to save the state of the driver at a known location on the system partition. With this I also want that no more writes( of any nature ) should happen on the system partition after my driver writes its state.
    Is the dispatch routine for IRP_MJ_SHUTDOWN the right point to achieve this?
    Is there any article on web or with somebody which explains in detail about the shutdown procedure of Windows NT?
    Does Services stop in the same order as they are started? If not how shutdown notification is send to the services.
    How to use ZwCreateFile() fn. with my driver, which is between FSD and disk drivers?
     
    Please try to answer the following questions ASAP.
    thx in advance.
     
    Akhil kaushik:       akaushik@legato.com
                                 akhilkaushik@hotmail.com