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A Visual Expedition Inside the Linux File Systems

Posted by kdawson on from the data-porn dept.

RazvanM writes "This is an attempt to visualize the relationships among the Linux File Systems through the lens of the external symbols their kernel modules use. We took an initial look a few months back but this time the scope is much broader. This analysis was done on 1377 kernel modules from 2.6.0 to 2.6.29, but there is also a small dip into the BSD world. The most thorough analysis was done on Daniel Phillips's tree, which contains the latest two disk-based file systems for Linux: tux3 and btrfs. The main techniques used to establish relationships among file systems are hierarchical clustering and phylogenetic trees. Also presented are a set of rankings based on various properties related to the evolution of the external symbols from one release to another, and complete timelines of the kernel releases for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. In all there are 78 figures and 10 animations."

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  1. Re:Typo in summary. by M8e · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Very funny, moding that Informative.

  2. Re:Typo in summary. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Umm, I don't think this was meant to be informative. I think SharpFang was trying to be funny.

  3. Re:Verry Pretty ...but by smallfries · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is that an American style of punctuation? In British English the first (more logical) example is correct.

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  4. Re:Verry Pretty ...but by rant64 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If the entire sentence were a quote, then the second example would be correct, at least around here (NLD). But the "dd" is not a quote, it's a literal string that should not include the period.

    Both of them make sense.

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  5. Re:Typo in summary. by rant64 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Umm, I don't think this was meant to be informative. I think SharpFang was trying to be funny.

    You're trying to be informative, Wise Guy?

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  6. Re:Verry Pretty ...but by Sinbios · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your incorrect conclusion that quotation marks are logically wrong arose from the fact that you don't understand how quotation marks work.

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