From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Mar 20 18:58: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from ex1.ncsa.uiuc.edu (ex1.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470F137B417 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:58:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.ncsa.uiuc.edu (mx1.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.2.8]) by ex1.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2L2w1q29496 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:58:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu (sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.21.161]) by mx1.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2L2w1x03193 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:58:01 -0600 (CST) Received: (from koziol@localhost) by sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2L2w1b89931 for freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:58:01 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from koziol) From: Quincey Koziol Message-Id: <200203210258.g2L2w1b89931@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> Subject: Re: Filesystem books? In-Reply-To: <002501c1cf14$932f4a10$7101a8c0@athlon> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:58:01 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL95a (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message