On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Sankar P wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to write a simple filesystem to learn the basics of it. > > I have decided on a simple layout for my filesystem where the first > block will be the super block and will contain the version > information etc. The second block will contain the list of inodes. > Third block onwards will be data blocks. Each file can grow only up to > a single block size. Thrid block will represent the first file, fourth > block for the second file and so on. Directories will not be > supported. > > Now I want to create a mkfs for my filesystem as mentioned above. But > I am not able to find out how to do the mkfs for my filesystem such > that the generic mkfs utility will understand my filesystem. What APIs > should I be using ? > > Any help is appreciated. Thanks. According to my copy of the mkfs sources, you just have to create a program named "mkfs.ID" where ID identifies your filesystem. Then put that program in a location that the generic mkfs can find, i.e. under $PATH (mkfs seems to make some additions to PATH but you should figure this out yourself). Finally, calling "mkfs -t ID" makes mkfs search for a program named "mkfs.ID" - simple concatenation. Regards, Tobi _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
