Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:15:56 -0600 (CST) From: Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem books? Message-ID: <200203210515.g2L5FuH92109@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <R$3HKkAVn5l8IwIf@ubik.demon.co.uk>
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> In article <200203190542.g2J5gJi04830@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu>, Quincey
> Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu> writes
> > What's the best book or other set of documentation describing the FFS
> >filesystem format?
>
> There is an overview in "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD
> Operating System", ISBN 0-201-54979-4. Otherwise you're stuck reading
> the source ...
Already on my list, but thanks! :-)
> > Are there any good books or other pieces of documentation about NTFS?
>
> "Inside Microsoft Windows 2000", David Solomon and Mark Russinovich,
> Microsoft Press ISBN 0-7356-1021-5 Chapter 13 has the best published
> info. (IMO)
Great! I'll add this to the other suggestions about NTFS that have been
mentioned and try to find the best one.
> Check http://www.sysinternals.com where there are utilities to read NTFS
> volumes (executable only, I think they had source at one point for an
> earlier version). FileMon and NTFSinfo utilities are available in
> source form and allow you to probe some details of a running system.
Ok, I may take a look at these, although I really am more interested in
a high-level description of the filesystem layout, etc.
> I am (intermittently) putting some resources/pointers together for low
> level Windows programming. Some of the books mentioned on my web page
> have snippets of info, http://www.ubik.demon.co.uk/proginfo.html but
> probably are not at the level you want.
Actually, it looks like some of the books you list are along the lines
of what I'm interested in, thanks!
Quincey
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