On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 13:35 +0530, victorascroft@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > On 15-04-22 12:47:54, sahil aggarwal wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am reading Understanding the linux kernel CH15(ext2 and ext3 file > > systems) and have even started implementation of File system from > > scratch for learning purpose by following this : > > > > https://github.com/psankar/simplefs > > > > Any leads on other links/papers to understand VFS->FS->disk flow > > better.? > > Have a look at the kernel books by Robert Love and Bovet,Cesati. > > Also http://www.nongnu.org/ext2-doc/ext2.html > > Also for what its worth, since you are interested in FS and how they > are > implemented > > http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ > > Have a look at the chapters in Persistence. The chapters have pretty > good explanations and also note various papers related to file > systems > which you can go through. > > In addition you might find the following of interest as well > > http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6.html > You can understand the FS structure in xv6 and start doing your own > improvements on it. For example, xv6 currently uses the > direct/indirect > pointer strategy which you can improve to increase max file size > which > xv6 currently uses. OR do an extent based file system improvement. > Direct/indirect pointer strategy is used in ext2/3 and ext4 uses > extents. So you can play around in xv6 to learn more about FS while > also > cross referencing other FS. And since you do all testing in qemu no > worries of actually breaking stuff. > > You also might want to look at xinu, though I have yet to mess > around in > what xinu uses in FS. > > Hope that helps a bit. Nice links! Thank you very much! Stefan _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
