From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Cc: Avishay Traeger <avishay@gmail.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Which fs is a good example for learning ?
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:44:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090106114400.GA7187@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38b2ab8a0901060049r18bb1d8do18a51ed4c3830ddf@mail.gmail.com>
Francis Moreau wrote:
> ramfs seems a good example for learning the page cache. But since
> it's not a disk based filesystem, it doesn't cover the block dev
> layer (bio, elevator...) and more important all data structures
> used on the disk.
Fair enough, that's good stuff to understand.
Btw, only about half the filesystems in linux/fs use the block dev
layer and work with block based disks.
The others are virtual, userspace, network, flash or (being submitted)
object-storage.
-- Jamie
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-05 20:40 Which fs is a good example for learning ? Francis Moreau
2009-01-05 20:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-06 6:23 ` Avishay Traeger
2009-01-06 8:46 ` Francis Moreau
2009-01-06 13:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-06 14:30 ` Francis Moreau
[not found] ` <c41302d20901052214j56a34b38h3a89f94b540be006@mail.gmail.com>
2009-01-06 8:49 ` Francis Moreau
2009-01-06 11:44 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
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