From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Jun 1 09:31:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07305 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 09:31:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (daemon@smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07275 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 09:31:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA14870; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 09:31:16 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd014816; Mon Jun 1 09:31:14 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA08362; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 09:31:12 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199806011631.JAA08362@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: implementation of virtual file system and msdosfs To: hiren@tagore.wipinfo.soft.net Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 16:31:12 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9806011401.AA11364@tagore.wipinfo.soft.net> from "hiren@tagore.wipinfo.soft.net" at Jun 1, 98 02:00:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Is there any documentation which explains the implementation of VFS and the > implementation of msdosfs which fits into VFS implementation of FreeBSD ftp://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/ficus/heidemann_thesis.ps.gz See also other documents in the same directory. It's not totally accurate, since the BSD4.4 implementation does not match John Heidemann's design documents very well at all. Among other things, there is "struct fileops", "VOP_LOCK", the cookie argument to "VOP_READDIR", etc.. It would be nice if the code matched the design document. 8-|. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message