Re: Which fs is a good example for learning ?

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Francis Moreau wrote:
> ramfs seems a good example for learning the page cache. But since
> it's not a disk based filesystem, it doesn't cover the block dev
> layer (bio, elevator...)  and more important all data structures
> used on the disk.

Fair enough, that's good stuff to understand.

Btw, only about half the filesystems in linux/fs use the block dev
layer and work with block based disks.

The others are virtual, userspace, network, flash or (being submitted)
object-storage.

-- Jamie
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