Filesystem development

[Xerroz]

does anyone know of any resources that can help in the development of a filesystem? any resources are welcome. Thank you.

[Karig]

Well, if you don't mind paying for a book, there's "Practical File System Design with the Be File System" by Dominic Giampaolo. Problem: It's out of stock, and apparently rare, because it's going for about TWICE what I paid for it new.

-- link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 558604979/

Or you could just go to www.ntfs.com (or linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net) and read up on NTFS (Windows XP's file system).

[Xerroz]

im going to try to buy this book when i can, until then does anyone know of some free resources? Thanks for any help.

[carbonBased]

I based my original file system on the EXT2FS documentation.  I found it a good intro into file systems, at least.

I can't recall where all I found info on the ext2 file system, but I know it's widely available (I can see if I can find some pdf's I used to have, once I get home).  The ext2fs tools on sourceforge also had some info on the file system structure, if I recall correctly.

There's also TONS of docs of FAT (although, there are also TONS of better file systems )

Cheers,
Jeff