Important: Switch from DOKAN 0.6 to 0.53 (1 Viewer)

[Albert]

Hi guys,
lately, we have many problems with the DOKAN driver version 0.6 which we use in MediaPortal 2. It produces bluescreens when MediaPortal 2 isn't properly shut down. A test showed that version 0.53 doesn't have those problems, that's why we'll revert to version 0.53 until we have a better solution.

If you already have installed the DOKAN version 0.6, please deinstall it (+restart) and install DOKAN version 0.53, which can be downloaded from the DOKAN download site.

Thank you very much and sorry for the inconvenience!

Albert

 

[MJGraf]

Hey, that explains that nasty BSOD i got today when closing MP2-Client. I thought the reason was that I just stressed my little laptop too much with testing MP2 . Will revert back to Dokan 0.53.
Thanks and best,
Michael

 

[commander197]

AW: Important: Switch from DOKAN 0.6 to 0.53

Hi,

is IMDisk an alternative for you if you have so many problems with dokan?
IMDisk

Greets
commander

 

[Albert]

AW: Important: Switch from DOKAN 0.6 to 0.53

Thanks commander197, we'll check if IMDisk can replace DOKAN.

 

[morpheus_xx]

AW: Important: Switch from DOKAN 0.6 to 0.53

I checked the IMDisk tool. It's seems to be great for accessing ISOs, or to build raw disk devices. I contacted the developer and described our way of a "virtual filesystem". He told me that IMDisk does not support filesystem calls (which we currently hook with DOKAN), it only supports block based read request.

So I think this won't work for us :sorry:

 

[Salty.dh]

Not sure if Dokan is still being used for virtual filesystem access for MediaPortal.

Just thought I'd raise two solutions which have recently replaced Dokan with custom file system drivers.

Brahim over at FlexRAID.com (FlexRAID's Drive Pooling component)
Alex at CoveCube.com (StableBit Drive Pool)

Both these guys are playing in the Drive Pooling space, you're might have come across these solutions already!. The interesting bit is that these guys have both been down the "Dokan path" and have now recently written a file system driver (independently of each other I believe) to provide the core drive pooling functionality in their solutions.

FlexRAID is free to use but the source code remains closed. EDIT: FlexRAID uses Eldos' Callback Filesystem (http://www.eldos.com/cbfs/)
CoveCube plans to provide their software as a commercial solution once it leaves beta status.

This does mean these guys may continue to hold these solutions close to chest but I thought someone on the core Mediaportal team might try contacting these guys in the hopes that an arrangement could be struck.

Just a thought