Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:38:52 -0600 (CST) From: Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu> To: Anthony Naggs <tony@ubik.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem books? Message-ID: <200203190538.g2J5cqw04675@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <o$oJ6XAoSpl8Iwvw@ubik.demon.co.uk>
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> In article <200203182230.g2IMUwh22651@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu>, Quincey > Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu> 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?) Ah, yes, I've read this one and was quite impressed with it also.. :-) Although it stopped short in a couple of places, I thought it was a very useful read. > On the net I have seen good documentation for ReiserFS, a quick Google > suggests http://www.reiserfs.org/ as a starting point for this. Ah, cool, I'll check it out, thanks! Quincey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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