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Filesystem development
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 12:00 am
by Xerroz
does anyone know of any resources that can help in the development of a filesystem? any resources are welcome. Thank you.
RE:Filesystem development
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 12:00 am
by 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).
RE:Filesystem development
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 12:00 am
by 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.
RE:Filesystem development
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 12:00 am
by 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