Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:58:01 -0600 (CST) From: Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem books? Message-ID: <200203210258.g2L2w1b89931@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <002501c1cf14$932f4a10$7101a8c0@athlon>
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Ah, very cool, I'll see if I can track them down.
Thanks,
Quincey
> "practical file system design with the BE file system": 1-55860-497-9
>
> "VMS File System Internals": 1-55558-056-4
>
> "The Design and Implementation of A Log-Structured File System":
> 0-7923-9541-7
>
> "Inside The Windows NT File System": 1-55615-660-X
>
> "Windows NT File System Internals": 1-56592-249-2
>
> "Inside The Windows 95 File System": 1-56592-200-X
>
> There is one more on distributed file system design that I have, but it
> is not on my bookshelf here in my office.
>
> Jamey Kirby
> StorageCraft, inc.
> jkirby@storagecraft.com
> www.storagecraft.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG]
> On Behalf Of Anthony Naggs
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 5:30 PM
> To: Quincey Koziol
> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Filesystem books?
>
> 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?)
>
>
> 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
>
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