---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pranay Srivastava <pranjas@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:53:21 +0530 Subject: Re: Creating mkfs for my custom filesystem To: Sankar P <sankar.curiosity@xxxxxxxxx> On 3/29/13, Sankar P <sankar.curiosity@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > > -- > Sankar P > http://psankar.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > Hi Sankar, I started with something like that. Although I wrote just a bit more complex but it really is quite simple. If you want you can use this and I'll also like to contribute to it. https://github.com/pranjas/psfs.git Checkout psfs.h and psfs-format.c for complete details. Let me know if you need any help. ---P.K.S--- _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
