From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 12 1:48:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E34A37B40C for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 01:48:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from pohoda.cz (pohoda.pohoda.cz [194.228.111.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92B0C43E4A for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 01:48:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from plusik@pohoda.cz) Received: (qmail 21400 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2002 09:48:24 -0000 Received: from plusik@pohoda.cz by pohoda.cz by uid 500 with qmail-scanner-1.15 ( Clear:. Processed in 0.049096 secs); 12 lis 2002 09:48:24 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Nov 2002 09:48:23 -0000 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:48:23 +0100 (CET) From: Tomas Pluskal To: , , Subject: seeking help to rewrite the msdos filesystem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I believe that everybody here knows about the "slow msdosfs" problem, that is AFAIK caused by implementation without clustering. For me this is very annoying, because I use digital camera, and ZIP drive, and FAT on both of them. Speed is about 10 times lower than it could be.. I would like to rewrite the msdosfs driver to use clustering (in fact, I have chosen it as school project, so I have to do it anyway :). Is there anybody, who could spend few minutes and write me some information about how these filesystems are implemented, what should I read first, and what steps to follow to implement clustering ? I am ready to do the hard work :) Thanks Tomas Pluskal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message