knowing more about blocks

knowing more about blocks

[Payal Rathod]

Hi,
The whole filesystem idea is seemingly interesting to me. Can someone 
point to some good documentation which explains superblock, inode block 
and data blocks in details without going into too much of technicalities 
(as I am a person with no technical background academically).

With warm regards,
-Payal

Re: knowing more about blocks

[Matt Stegman]

This page is all about ext2, not reiserfs, but I think it works as a good
primer for general information:

http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html

This page provides more detailed information about reiserfs (that's
version 3, not 4, just to be clear):

http://homes.cerias.purdue.edu/~florian/reiser/reiserfs.php

If you're not familiar with the basic ideas behind hard disks and
partitions, and the difference between a partition and a filesystem,
Ranish's partitioning primer does a good job of explaining that.

http://www.ranish.com/part/primer.htm

-- 
Matt Stegman

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Payal Rathod wrote:

> Hi,
> The whole filesystem idea is seemingly interesting to me. Can someone
> point to some good documentation which explains superblock, inode block
> and data blocks in details without going into too much of technicalities
> (as I am a person with no technical background academically).
>
> With warm regards,
> -Payal
>
>

Re: knowing more about blocks

[Payal Rathod]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:23:52PM -0500, Matt Stegman wrote:
> This page is all about ext2, not reiserfs, but I think it works as a good
> primer for general information:
> 
> http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html

Excellent articles. Thanks a lot Matt. The last one is bit DOS oriented 
but still OK for a newbie.

Thanks
With warm regards,
-Payal

> 
> This page provides more detailed information about reiserfs (that's
> version 3, not 4, just to be clear):
> 
> http://homes.cerias.purdue.edu/~florian/reiser/reiserfs.php
> 
> If you're not familiar with the basic ideas behind hard disks and
> partitions, and the difference between a partition and a filesystem,
> Ranish's partitioning primer does a good job of explaining that.
> 
> http://www.ranish.com/part/primer.htm
>