FSCTL_CREATE_USN_JOURNAL IOCTL (winioctl.h)

Creates an update sequence number (USN) change journal stream on a target volume, or modifies an existing change journal stream.

C++
BOOL 
WINAPI 
DeviceIoControl( (HANDLE) hDevice,              // handle to volume
                 FSCTL_CREATE_USN_JOURNAL,      // dwIoControlCode(LPVOID) lpInBuffer,           // input buffer
                 (DWORD) nInBufferSize,         // size of input buffer
                 NULL,                          // lpOutBuffer
                 0,                             // nOutBufferSize(LPDWORD) lpBytesReturned,     // number of bytes returned
                 (LPOVERLAPPED) lpOverlapped ); // OVERLAPPED structure

Remarks

For the implications of overlapped I/O on this operation, see the Remarks section of the DeviceIoControl topic.

You can use FSCTL_CREATE_USN_JOURNAL to create a new change journal stream for a volume. After the creation of the stream, the NTFS file system maintains a change journal for that volume.

You can also use FSCTL_CREATE_USN_JOURNAL to modify an existing change journal stream. If a change journal stream already exists, FSCTL_CREATE_USN_JOURNAL sets it to the characteristics provided in the CREATE_USN_JOURNAL_DATA structure. The change journal stream eventually gets larger or is trimmed to the new size limit that CREATE_USN_JOURNAL_DATA imposes.

For more information, see Creating, Modifying, and Deleting a Change Journal.

To retrieve a handle to a volume, call CreateFile with the lpFileName parameter set to a string in the following form:

\\.\X:

In the preceding string, X is the letter identifying the drive on which the volume appears. The volume must be NTFS 3.0 or later. To obtain the NTFS version of a volume, open a command prompt with Administrator access rights and execute the following command:

fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo X:

where X is the drive letter of the volume.

In Windows Server 2012, this function is supported by the following technologies.

Technology Supported
Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0 protocol No
SMB 3.0 Transparent Failover (TFO) No
SMB 3.0 with Scale-out File Shares (SO) No
Cluster Shared Volume File System (CsvFS) Yes

Requirements

Requirement Value
Minimum supported client Windows XP [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server Windows Server 2003 [desktop apps only]
Header winioctl.h (include Windows.h)

See also

CREATE_USN_JOURNAL_DATA

Change Journals

CreateFile

DeviceIoControl

OVERLAPPED

Volume Management Control Codes