Hi Dion, 2009/2/6 ~Dion <tenz...@iinet.net.au>: > Hi Everyone, > > I am interested in the tmpfs porting project. To determine > if it is a reasonable goal for me, I've been trying to do some reading on > the subject. > > I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on > readings, either related to other ports of tmpfs or the > structure of the dragonfly kernel. > > I have the text books, Design & Implementation of 4.4 BSD > and Design & Implementation of FreeBSD (5.2). > > I have also pulled down GSOC submissions relating to the > NetBSD port of tmpfs and the NetBSD Internals documentation. > > I am curious as to how much the dragonfly kernel is > different from the freeBSD kernel with respect to things > like virtual memory and vfs.
As far as I know, both VM and VFS layers are seriously different from FreeBSD. They should be much more consistent in DragonFly. Also, my knowledge comes only after lurking at this mailing list, so I can't tell you more details. I suppose, you've already read articles at http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/developer/. If not, it's definitely a good choice to start with. Good luck with your project -- Dennis Melentyev
