Filesystem Theory

[jwilliams]

I am trying to find some online resources about filesystem fundamentals. In particular, how one goes about writing a filesystem, and what the necessary components of a file system are. I am quite able to find definitions of ext3 and what not, i'm looking for sort of a bare bones over all resource here. any ideas? thanks a bunch

[serz]

Have you ever Googled for it? I'm pretty sure that you can find lot of information about the different filesystems.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

[chopin1810]

How do I not like file systems... or how do I like filesystems?? I guess I like them...

[Game master pro]

I suppose i like filesystems.......

[the ex]

i hate file systems, HFS+ in particular... im trying to get access to my Mac disk from SuSE and i can get in, but there are some folders i cant view (just so happens they are the important ones)

tommorow im installing XP, so i can use MacDIsk to get into the drive and get my files...


FAT32, now thats a file system... everything should be in FAT32

[Roxoff]

Do I like filesystems? Hell yes, when the alternative is not having on-disk files (like having to key in your operating system by hand using a front panel after startup... Ugggg!). But also no, particularly when you click the 'download' button on some web page and press 'save to disk' and that's the last you ever see of the file, no amount of 'find / ...' will turn it up, and you end up downloading it again, and this time reading what the file is actually called and the directory name where it is being put.

[jaboua]

I voted 3, cause I don't know which purpose the poll has and especially not what you mean with liking a file system... Maybe "do you like ext3, reiserfs or fat32?" or "would you like programming a filesystem?", but...

[davebardsley]

From a theoretical point of view a file system is not required at all; why not a database of object pointers?

http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch20s03.html#id3019140