FBWF Features

FBWF introduces several new features not found in EWF, including greater write filter transparency to applications; selective write through, commit, and restore; improved overlay memory utilization; and enhanced APIs.

In This Section

• File and Directory Management Transparency
  Describes file and directory management functions available to applications.
• Selective Write Through
  Describes how to allow writes to specified underlying protected volumes.
• Selective Commits and Restores
  Describes how to commit writes from overlay cache to underlying protected volumes, and how to discard changes in overlay cache and restore the view to the underlying protected volumes.
• FBWF Memory Optimization
  Describes how FBWF optimizes utilization of overlay cache.
• FBWF API
  Describes FBWF API set.

Related Sections

• File-Based Write Filter
  Describes the FBWF Help topics.

Last updated on Wednesday, October 18, 2006

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