I am too an amateur FS geek.
A link you might like to look at.
http://www.geocities.com/ravikiran_uvs/
It contains a Simple file system. That has helped me, and may be of
interest to you.


On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:58 -0700, Peter van Hardenberg wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm a student at the University of Victoria. Between myself and a few fellow 
> students we have embarked on a quest to do some experiments with the Reiser4 
> metadata system to show it off and provide some real world use cases.
> 
> We'll be spending lots of time on this project between now and the end of the 
> year. If list members have ideas for interesting experiments, please, join in 
> and suggest them.
> 
> So far, we have a few nifty ideas:
> 
> 1) tie the 'extract' utility to a shell script to copy existing metadata down 
> into the filesystem
> 
> 2) create a (very slow) shell which operates on the filesystem by xpath query. 
> doing it right would be difficult, but faking it should be easy.
> 
> We are all inexperienced with kernel hacking and will probably ask some stupid 
> questions as we go forward. Our individual interests vary and we may find 
> that we have bitten off more than we can chew, but I expect it will be an 
> interesting ride, if nothing else. 
> 
> Our first contribution will be a practical guide to installing Reiser4 (with 
> metadata enabled) under Ubuntu 5.10. 
> 
> All the best,
> -pvh
> 
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