Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 23:19:41 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: ALeine <aleine@austrosearch.net> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pointers for understanding vfs/buffer/filesystem architecture Message-ID: <42F43A5D.8050608@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <200507300642.j6U6ghCF057455@marlena.vvi.at> References: <200507300642.j6U6ghCF057455@marlena.vvi.at>
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ALeine wrote: > Eric Anderson wrote: > >>I've very interested in learning about FreeBSD's implementation >>of vfs/buffer cache/fs archicture. > > > You may want to download the following graphical overview of the > UFS/FFS filesystem that was made by Poul-Henning Kamp earlier > this year, it's very useful: > > http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/ufs.pdf > > If you want to print it out you'll need 18 sheets of paper. Oh my - that is quite impressive.. phk - thank you! I can't wait to print that out.. (I even wonder if it was generated automatically?) > You may also want to use something like doxygen (devel/doxygen in the > ports tree) to generate source code graphs and make browsing through > source code easier. Another resource that you may find helpful is > Robert Watson's FXR site: > > http://fxr.watson.org I've played with that a bit - quite useful. Thanks for the reminder of it. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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