Re: very simple root fs

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On 10/13/07, Pawel K <pawlaczus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have 3 questions:
>
> 1. Do You know any documents/sites where I can find
> the instructions of how to build the very simple root
> fs ?

The following is from GregKH:

> Look at the code for securityfs, or debugfs, or usbfs.  All of those are
> nice and tiny and "simple".
>
> Do not look at the code for sysfs, it does things that you do not want
> to have to do in your driver-based filesystem.
>
> Oh, I wrote an article describing how to do this back in 2003 for
> linux.conf.au if you want to take a look at the proceedings.  It will
> give you an idea of what is needed, but then look at the newer code
> implementations (like debugfs) to see how much simpler it has gotten
> since then.

My personal understanding is that debugfs is located in fs/debugfs,
but securityfs is in security/inode.c (in particular, look at
securityfs_create_dir() and securityfs_create_file() implementation).

Have fun.

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