From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francis Moreau Subject: Which fs is a good example for learning ? Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:40:50 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f21.google.com ([209.85.218.21]:43933 "EHLO mail-bw0-f21.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752732AbZAEUlB (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 15:41:01 -0500 Received: by bwz14 with SMTP id 14so23197441bwz.13 for ; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:40:59 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, I'd like to learn how file systems work on Linux and I don't know which file system driver I should look at to get a good picture of how a contemporary file system is designed. The choice has to be made according some criterias: the fs shouldn't be too hard since I'm pretty new in this area. Also not too old/obsolete since I'd like to learn from current technology. Could anybody give me some suggestions ? Thanks -- Francis