On 4/16/05, Perfect Stranger <gilmour@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all: > I've read about VFS in the "Understanding the Linux kernel" book .. and > i've understand some of the ideas .. but each alone and the connection > points between these ideas are lost > can anyone help me by telling me from where to start ? what i have to do > first ? and what next ? Read the source code, of course :-) At least that's what I did. I'm probably a little bit late but I would recommend to read ramfs first, followed for example by minix fs. Moreover, if you're creating a block device backed fs, consider having a look at parts of ext2 that call functions from mpage.h. AFAIK, all electronic documentation is outrageously outdated, including Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt in the kernel tree. What is (hopefully) not outdated and worth looking at is Documentation/filesystems/Locking. Just my $0.02 Martin PS: Yeah, it's not easy but at least you read the book. I started without knowing anything and that's been an adventure I'm not really through yet :-) -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
