Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964814AbWAWRAO (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:00:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964816AbWAWRAO (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:00:14 -0500 Received: from uproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.92.205]:58647 "EHLO uproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964814AbWAWRAM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:00:12 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VD42iZn0SynzUWH8jkPvcIw+zzegYRuRNVrJlMRU/dy/BfTQrRet6V1Dajh+OzQy7mTHsbDD2I1JchNn341vzp+VhOA32kcGnBB26V46rgzpIwMYath5rg/DobBwgTXtVUY7XWg2rFqiizovtQWvOlPhYKJJPM26QT4YnPoNK+0= Message-ID: <84144f020601230900x477dd21am8d94f382e37c5072@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:00:09 +0200 From: Pekka Enberg To: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: Linux VFS architecture questions Cc: Antonio Vargas , "Theodore Ts'o" , John Richard Moser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <43D3295E.8040702@comcast.net> <20060122093144.GA7127@thunk.org> <43D3D4DF.2000503@comcast.net> <20060122210238.GA28980@thunk.org> <4D75B95E-2595-4B60-91B3-28AD469C3D39@mac.com> <20060123072447.GA8785@thunk.org> <536E71BF-44FF-430C-8C19-F06526F0C78D@mac.com> <69304d110601230552n4c7656cal9c6901e180e82504@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1253 Lines: 26 Hi Kyle, On 1/23/06, Kyle Moffett wrote: > Great! I'm trying to learn about filesystem design and > implementation, which is why I started writing my own hfsplus > filesystem (otherwise I would have just used the in-kernel one). Do > you have any recommended reading (either online or otherwise) for > someone trying to understand the kernel's VFS and blockdev > interfaces? I _think_ I understand the basics of buffer_head, > super_block, and have some idea of how to use aops, but it's tough > going trying to find out what functions to call to manage cached disk > blocks, or under what conditions the various VFS functions are > called. I'm trying to write up a "Linux Disk-Based Filesystem > Developers Guide" based on what I learn, but it's remarkably sparse > so far. Did you read Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt? Also, books Linux Kernel Development and Understanding the Linux Kernel have fairly good information on VFS (and related) stuff. Pekka - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/