*"This is an attempt to visualize the relationships among the Linux File Systems through the lens of the external symbols their kernel modules use. We took an initial look<http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/11/2035211&tid=198>a few months back but this time the scope is much broader. This analysis was done on 1377 kernel modules<http://cs.jhu.edu/%7Erazvanm/fs-expedition/building.html>from 2.6.0 to 2.6.29, but there is also a small dip into the BSD world <http://cs.jhu.edu/%7Erazvanm/fs-expedition/bsd.html>. The most thorough analysis<http://cs.jhu.edu/%7Erazvanm/fs-expedition/tux3.html>was done on Daniel Phillips's tree<http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/daniel/linux-tux3.git>, which contains the latest two disk-based file systems for Linux: tux3<http://tux3.org/>and btrfs <http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page>. The main techniques used to established relationships among file systems are hierarchical clustering <http://cs.jhu.edu/%7Erazvanm/fs-expedition/tux3.html#hclust> and phylogenetic trees<http://cs.jhu.edu/%7Erazvanm/fs-expedition/tux3.html#pars>. Also presented are a set of rankings<http://cs.jhu.edu/%7Erazvanm/fs-expedition/2.6.x.html#rankings>based on various properties related to the evolution of the external symbols from one release to another, and complete timelines<http://cs.jhu.edu/%7Erazvanm/fs-expedition/timelines.html>of the kernel releases for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. In all there are 78 figures and 10 animations."
Click here to read more<http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/15/015207> * Regards Akash Deep Shakya "OpenAK" B.E. (Computer) | Kathmandu University http://www.akashdeepshakya.com.np akashakya at gmail dot com Phone: (+977)-01-4489578 Mobile No. :(+977) 9841322087 P.O.Box: 8975 EPC: 4235 ~ Failure to prepare is preparing to fail ~ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
