Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 22:46:01 -0700 From: Simon Brugger <simon.brugger@gmail.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Need help to understand inodes in FAT implementation Message-ID: <CAOSq-ePjSeWq3HVaRxoGJ8ue_UrxE=vn093ZPS3z4=HhPqsrAg@mail.gmail.com>
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The FAT filesystem is a design from Microsoft and the whole Windows universe. As you probably know, FAT does not support Inodes like ext3 or other UNIX/LINUX filesystem. The FreeBSD kernel provide a FAT filesystem driver but I've problems to understand the code and need help for answering the following questions: - Inodes must be generated on the fly by file access. When exactly does this happened? - How does FreeBSD generate Inodes? - How does the kernel FAT driver manage the file descriptors? Thank you very much for your help.
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