From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 4 23:10:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA10083 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 23:10:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com (root@[199.238.225.168]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA09917 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 23:08:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA25520; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 23:08:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606050608.XAA25520@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Jake Hamby cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement? In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 02 Jun 96 14:21:53 -0700. Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 23:08:21 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Unix Internals: The New Frontier >Author: Uresh Vahalia >Publisher: Prentice Hall >ISBN: 0-13-101908-2 >Great book, covers SVR4, 4.4BSD, Solaris, SunOS, Mach, Digital Unix, and [...] Also a great book for novice kernel-delvers is "the Daemon book", written by some of the guys who actually wrote much of BSD and many of the things that we take for granted in modern Unix -- "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System" Authors: McKusick, Bostic, Karels, Quarterman Publisher: Addison-Wesley ISBN: 0-201-54979-4 Maybe if I say enough great things about it they'll all offer to sign it for me, and each write a small unpublished kernel secret in the margins... Speaking of filesystems, it has a very nice section on 4.4's implementatin of stackable filesystems. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------