From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Mar 18 17:30:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66B2437B400 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:30:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ubik.demon.co.uk ([194.222.125.229]) by anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16n8SI-0004Lp-0Y; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:30:27 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:30:16 +0000 To: Quincey Koziol Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG From: Anthony Naggs Subject: Re: Filesystem books? References: <200203182230.g2IMUwh22651@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200203182230.g2IMUwh22651@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <200203182230.g2IMUwh22651@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu>, Quincey Koziol writes >Howdy, > I'm working on a scientific file format (HDF5 - http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu) >which has a lot of similarities to a filesystem. I'd like to do more research >about filesystem techniques for improving the features and performance of our >library. Can anyone point out some good books or papers (or web-sites) to read >up on filesystem design? "Practical File System Design" Dominic Giampaolo Morgan Kaufman Press (www.mkp.com) ISBN 1-55860-497-9 This book gives a lot of background and philosophy of the design of a modern file system, in this case the FS for BeOS. Practical, readable and surprisingly slim for the tremendous amount of detail. (I'm really impressed with this book, can you tell?) On the net I have seen good documentation for ReiserFS, a quick Google suggests http://www.reiserfs.org/ as a starting point for this. Cheers, Tony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message