File System Design part 1, XFS

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @05:23AM from the get-your-hack-on dept.

rchapman writes "Generally, file systems are not considered "sexy." When a young programmer wants to do something really cool, his or her first thought is generally not "Dude, two words... File System." However, I am what is politely termed "different." I find file systems very interesting and they have seldom been more so than they are right now. Hans Reiser is working on getting Reiser4 integrated into the Linux kernel, the BSD's are working on getting a journaled file system together, and Sun Microsystems just recently released a beta of ZFS into OpenSolaris. "

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File system design by Bogtha · 2006-01-25 05:35 · Score: 5, Informative

If you're interested in this, you'll probably also be interested in Practical File System Design with the Be File System (PDF), by Dominic Giampaolo, the designer of the Be file system. There's also a Slashdot review of this book.

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