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From: Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
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Subject: Re: Filesystem books?
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To: Anthony Naggs <tony@ubik.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:38:52 -0600 (CST)
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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

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