On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 Rene Herman wrote :
>On 08/16/2007 06:39 PM, kernel learner wrote:
>
>>I m a newbie in the kernel domain. I want to read and learn everything about
>>the filesystem starting from basic concepts, design, implementation,
>>debugging etc.
>>Can u please point me to the correct sources like some links and books?
>
>Both the book suggestions you got are good for general kernel topics but I
>don't believe there's a book that focusses specifically on filesystems.
>
Here is a book which will give you internals of filesystems, its basic
fundomentals, design etc ...
Unix Filesystems by Steve Date
http://books.google.com/books?id=JLcCAAAACAAJ&dq=unix+filesystems
>Linux ofcourse supports a large number of filesystems so as to your "the
>filesystem": if you are talking about ext2/ext3, this old article is the first
>step for learning about those:
>
>http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2intro.html
>
>The MINIX FS is nicely described in the MINIX book ("Operating Systems, Design
>and Implementation", Tanenbaum/Woodhull) and reiserfs has online resources at
>www.namesys.com for example.
>
>If you are talking about the VFS (the bit of Linux that sits just above all
>those different actual filesystems) then "Understanding the Linux Kernel"
>(Bovet/Cesati) might be most useful.
>
>Rene.
>
-Rohit
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