On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 09:40:50PM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote: > I'd like to learn how file systems work on Linux and I don't know > which file system driver I should look at to get a good picture of > how a contemporary file system is designed. > > The choice has to be made according some criterias: the fs shouldn't > be too hard since I'm pretty new in this area. Also not too > old/obsolete since I'd like to learn from current technology. You're giving some contradictory criteria. ext2 is probably the best example to learn the basics, then you can move on to whichever filesystem catches your fancy. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
