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DOV file Format |
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The DOV file Format can be Divided into Two Parts 1 . XML Representation of the Directory structure. This part starts the DOV file and is present so that the contents of the Directory structure can be viewed in a XML aware application like the internet explorer. This can be particularly useful when you want to want to view the contents of a DOV file in the absence of the standard ORION DOV GUI. 2 . Header Information to be interperted by the ORION core driver that mounts the Views form the DOV files. This part of the DOV file is read by the ORION core drivers to mount a particular view. This is like a special Chunk of data that conveys the same information as the XML representation of the DOV file. The difference is that the information in this part of the header file is easy to read in the Linux Kernel as we cannot afford to interpret the XML information in the Kernel Mode. Note: Ideally DOV file generator program must create DOV files such that infomation conveyed in the header is same as described in the XML part of the file. Nevertheless the ORION core driver ignores any such discripancies in the two sets of information (XML & HEADERS) and only reads the headers. |