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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

      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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