From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Mar 20 21:16:46 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 6EEA637B419 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:16:40 -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 g2L5Fuq05793 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:15:56 -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 g2L5Fux24863 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:15:56 -0600 (CST) Received: (from koziol@localhost) by sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2L5FuH92109 for freebsd-fs@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:15:56 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from koziol) From: Quincey Koziol Message-Id: <200203210515.g2L5FuH92109@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> Subject: Re: Filesystem books? In-Reply-To: To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:15:56 -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 > In article <200203190542.g2J5gJi04830@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu>, Quincey > Koziol 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message