From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Mar 20 15:19:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F1337B419 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:19:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b137.otenet.gr [212.205.244.145]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2KNJExY015938; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:19:15 +0200 (EET) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2KNIw5D000929; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:19:13 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2KN51hG065988; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:05:01 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:05:00 +0200 (EET) From: Giorgos Keramidas X-X-Sender: charon@hades To: Quincey Koziol Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem books? In-Reply-To: <200203190536.g2J5atb04655@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> Message-ID: <20020321010333.P6735-100000@hades> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On 2002-03-18 23:36, Quincey Koziol wrote: > Does this actually contain any useful information on those filesystem formats? > How the bits are layed out on disk, etc? I don't need books on how to use > filesystems, I want to get into the guts of filesystem and look at how the > file and directory information is actually stored on disk, etc. If you're interested in how things are laid out on the disks, you might also find the paper by K. McKusick about FFS useful: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/mckusick84fast.html Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message