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From: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
To: Diksha B Bhoomi <dikshabhoomi@rediffmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Writing new filesystem
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:14:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030225111428.A1666@hexapodia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030225083631.17493.qmail@webmail17.rediffmail.com>; from dikshabhoomi@rediffmail.com on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:36:31AM -0000

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:36:31AM -0000, Diksha B Bhoomi wrote:
> I am interested in writing a new filesystems. For that purpose I 
> took thr src from msdos and tried to do the compiling. The 
[snip]
> new kernel but here again it does not take into account the new ly 
> added dir. I then followed to make dep. In this it goes to myfs 
> dir but no compiletion happens. It creates two files myfs.ver and 
[snip]

Look at fs/Makefile, search for "ext2", and add your new fs directory in
the appropriate spots.

I would recommend using ext2 or something, rather than msdosfs, as your
template.  The DOS filesystem is crufty.

-andy

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-25 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-25  8:36 Writing new filesystem Diksha B Bhoomi
2003-02-25 17:14 ` Andy Isaacson [this message]
2003-02-25 21:51   ` Herman Oosthuysen

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