Re: Writing new filesystem

From: Andy Isaacson (adi@hexapodia.org)
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 12:14:28 EST


On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:36:31AM -0000, Diksha B Bhoomi wrote:
> I am interested in writing a new filesystems. For that purpose I
> took thr src from msdos and tried to do the compiling. The
[snip]
> new kernel but here again it does not take into account the new ly
> added dir. I then followed to make dep. In this it goes to myfs
> dir but no compiletion happens. It creates two files myfs.ver and
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Look at fs/Makefile, search for "ext2", and add your new fs directory in
the appropriate spots.

I would recommend using ext2 or something, rather than msdosfs, as your
template. The DOS filesystem is crufty.

-andy
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