Ryan Sommers wrote: > Are there any good web resources or books on the VFS system that the > FreeBSD kernel uses? I'm guessing it might have originated from the > 4.4BSD(?) interface. I've been attempting to read through the source > code for different system calls (ie mkdir, rmdir, mount/umount) and > haven't been able to get very far because of the substantial layers of > indirection involved. For this reason I was looking at picking apart the > different subsystems involved and was wondering if there was anything > any more annotated then the source code itself.
The VFS stacking code came from the FICUS projct out of UCLA. Here are all their papers on FS stacking: ftp://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/ficus/usenix_summer_90.ps.gz ftp://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/ficus/OLD_TECHREPORTS/ucla_csd_900044.ps.gz ftp://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/ficus/OLD_TECHREPORTS/ucla_csd_910007.ps.gz ftp://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/ficus/WorkObjOrOpSys_90.ps.gz ftp://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/ficus/heidemann_thesis.ps.gz ftp://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/ficus/ucla_csd_930019.ps.gz -- Terry _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
