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Wiki's Ext2 page

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:15 pm
by B.E
I'm currently writing a more in depth page on the file system. Because, ext2 is contains a lot more features, and attributes, that other filesystem don't have (i.e FAT), this may take some time.

I'm considering adding the a list of fields withing the filesystem's data structures. Would it be wise to put such information in the page?

EDIT: Also because, UFS and Ext2/3 are similar in structure. Once I've finished with this I plan to add information regarding this file system.

Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:30 pm
by Brynet-Inc
Providing detailed Wiki articles on ext2/3 and UFS is a great idea!

Good luck :)

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:48 am
by chase
Maybe a generic Berkley FFS/UFS/EXT2 overview page going over the basics of super blocks, inodes, cylinder groups, directory structure, etc would be a good idea. Then we could have a detailed analysis page for each implementation.

Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:44 pm
by B.E
I've update the page with my new version, It's still a work in progress. I still need to elaborate on directories (both versions), and provide captions to data structures, and add the directory data structures.

Edit: is there any thing that needs to be fixed or is it the best thing you have ever read?

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:36 am
by Combuster
Other than being rather incomplete it looks very good.

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 1:08 am
by Shalted
Wow, thanks, I've been putting off writing a simple read-only driver for a while, but the guide as of right now is more than enough to get me started.

Thanks, again. :)

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:25 pm
by B.E
Nice to here that it wasn't a waste of time :)