Re: [zfs-discuss] Books on File Systems and File System Programming

2009-08-16 Thread Sanjeev
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:34:50PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Louis-Fr?d?ric Feuillette wrote: > > > I saw this question on another mailing list, and I too would like to > > know. And I have a couple questions of my own. > > > > == Paraphrased from other list == > > Does anyone have any rec

Re: [zfs-discuss] Books on File Systems and File System Programming

2009-08-16 Thread Anton B. Rang
There aren't many good books on file system design. The "VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures" book by Goldenberg covers a fair amount of the RMS file system design along with its rationale. There is also a "VMS File System Internals" book which I haven't yet read. Apple's early Inside Macinto

Re: [zfs-discuss] Books on File Systems and File System Programming

2009-08-15 Thread Jonathan Edwards
On Aug 14, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Peter Schow wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 05:02:46PM -0600, Louis-Fr?d?ric Feuillette wrote: I saw this question on another mailing list, and I too would like to know. And I have a couple questions of my own. == Paraphrased from other list == Does anyone have a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Books on File Systems and File System Programming

2009-08-14 Thread Toby Thain
On 14-Aug-09, at 11:14 AM, Peter Schow wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 05:02:46PM -0600, Louis-Fr?d?ric Feuillette wrote: I saw this question on another mailing list, and I too would like to know. And I have a couple questions of my own. == Paraphrased from other list == Does anyone have any

Re: [zfs-discuss] Books on File Systems and File System Programming

2009-08-14 Thread Peter Schow
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 05:02:46PM -0600, Louis-Fr?d?ric Feuillette wrote: > I saw this question on another mailing list, and I too would like to > know. And I have a couple questions of my own. > > == Paraphrased from other list == > Does anyone have any recommendations for books on File Systems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Books on File Systems and File System Programming

2009-08-14 Thread Louis-Frédéric Feuillette
I did see this, Thanks. On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 10:51 -0400, Christine Tran wrote: > > > 2009/8/14 Louis-Frédéric Feuillette > > > I am primarily interested in the theory of how to write a > filesystem. > The kernel interface comes later when I dive into

Re: [zfs-discuss] Books on File Systems and File System Programming

2009-08-14 Thread Louis-Frédéric Feuillette
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 12:34 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Louis-Frédéric Feuillette wrote: > > > I saw this question on another mailing list, and I too would like to > > know. And I have a couple questions of my own. > > > > == Paraphrased from other list == > > Does anyone have any recommendat

Re: [zfs-discuss] Books on File Systems and File System Programming

2009-08-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Louis-Frédéric Feuillette wrote: > I saw this question on another mailing list, and I too would like to > know. And I have a couple questions of my own. > > == Paraphrased from other list == > Does anyone have any recommendations for books on File Systems and/or > File Systems Programming? > == e

Re: [zfs-discuss] Books on File Systems and File System Programming

2009-08-13 Thread Maurice Castro
Going back a fair way the basics of FS design are in books like the following Chapter 7 and 8 of The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, Leffler, McKusick, Karels and Quarterman covers the FFS Chapter 6 of The Magic Garden Explained, Goodheart and Cox addresses SYS