We are two students from the University of Cordoba, Argentina, studying Computer Science. We are taking a second year course named Operating Systems, in which we study, well, basically, Andrew Tanenbaum's "Modern Operating Systems" (2nd Edition). We also have a programming-related lab, in which we've worked in several areas, such as managing processes and threads -work with race conditions, semaphores, mutexes, etc- (all done in linux, obviously), wrote a little baash-like command interpreter, and a memory manager to understand how bitmaps work, and the different algorithms to optimize memory managment. For our last project we were asked to write a paper on a subject of our choice. After looking though a few possibilities, we chose to do it about linux Ext4. We've been asked to not only compare it (performance-wise) with Ext3, but to explain -and try to justify the results of the benchmark comparisons- the following: caracteristics of each file system, internal arquitecture, and disk structure. Doing research, we've found little information related to these subjects, and just read this email, which seems to be highly related. If anyone could direct us to some good reading on the subject, or knows about this, we would apreciate it very much. Thank you very much for your time! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
