Re: documentation on writing a filesystem ?

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:20:46 +0000


On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 10:20:51AM +0100, Daniel J. Rodriksson wrote:

> I have checked Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt but I can't
> say it will make me a filesystem writer. :-)
> Any hints ??

Well, the approach I'd recommend is just to take the source to an existing
filesystem that is most like the one you want to write, and modify it :)

I noticed the other day, however, that Documentation/kernel-docs.txt seems
to have a good list of references..

S.

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