Re: How to start to develop a filesystem ?

From: Daniel Phillips (news-list.linux.kernel@innominate.de)
Date: Fri Aug 11 2000 - 15:02:24 EST

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tdanis@canal-plus.fr wrote:
> That's what we did originally, but lacking a reasonable (good/any ?)
> understanding of the internal architecture of the kernel regarding
> the filesystems organisation and the VFS layer (page/buffer caching)
> we got somewhat lost in ext2. Maybe going through Minix first wil
> help understanding ext2.

You might want to take a look at my series of posts on fsdevel@vger.rutgers.edu
and linux-doc@vger.rutgers.edu where I bravely and perhaps innocently attempt to
reverse-engineer the VFS, for example:

Re: Documenting VFS, the next installment
http://web.gnu.walfield.org/mail-archive/linux-doc/latest/0004.html

-- Daniel

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