>From here: http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+kernel+filesystem+internals+filetype:ppt You can find a lot of precious documentation: how a filesystem is optimized for multimedia, XFS internals (hepwww.rl.ac.uk/SYSMAN/dec2005/talks/Introduction%20to%20XFS%20.ppt), tracing linux kernel source code, filesystems internals (www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~suban/csl373/A5/Linux-Kernel/presentation.ppt) etc, too numerous resources to enumerate. But I think the following is even better: http://www.google.com/search?q=hash+function+filesystem+allocation+policy Eg: http://www-flash.stanford.edu/Hive/sosp95-hive/hive5.html (1995) http://www.xmailserver.org/xdfs.pdf http://www.ece.tamu.edu/~reddy/papers/va-oasis-final.pdf -- Regards, Peter Teoh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ