3 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-fsInteresting book on filesystems| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Eric Anderson | Jun 10, 2005 2:14 am | |
| Allan Fields | Jun 10, 2005 4:07 pm | |
| Eric Anderson | Jun 10, 2005 4:20 pm |
| Subject: | Interesting book on filesystems | |
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| From: | Eric Anderson (ande...@centtech.com) | |
| Date: | Jun 10, 2005 4:20:58 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-fs | |
Allan Fields wrote:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:14:24PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but just in case it hasn't:
Has a pdf of a "Practical File System Design..." book and a "File System Construction Kit". I'm going to download and play with the kit - not sure if will work without too much trouble on FreeBSD.
Eric
I downloaded and read this one as well. For a while I was looking in the stores, but it went out of fashion. Thanks to the author for putting it online.
The idea behind BFS's extended attributes in the inode is different than the UFS 2 implementation, are you interested in seeing any further enhancements to file systems under BSD?.
I mentioned on the -current list that I'd *love* to have a clustered filesystem under FreeBSD. I think it's the future of filesystems, much as journaling is becoming prevalent today.
One idea floated was adding journalling and/or transactions to UFS. Then there is also the issue of cache coherency.
Scott Long is currently working on adding journaling to UFS. I think he's making good progress.
Another, is to start adding semantic enhancements to the file system. In talking with Marshall Kirk McKusick, the prefered approach from a BSD perspective might be incremental addition of features in a way that will render UFS workable and w/o the likelihood of data loss/corruption much like the dirhash implementation.
Seems like filesystem innovation is not so popular these days, but I think with a little brainstorming some creative individuals could come up with some very powerful and unique solutions to problems we are just used to dealing with..
Eric
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