> > I am planning to implement ReiserFS on my operating system named Capital > (www.mitpune.com/research/capital1.html). To give a brief background - > Capital is a 32-bit Object Oriented operating system for the Intel > i386 range of microprocessors. Capital's features include > multithreading,virtual memory and a VFS interface. > > > rgds > Ram
Ram, Based upon your project description, you might be better served by talking to the folks in IBM's K42 OS project. K42's filesystem, kfs, seems similar in philosophy to Reiser4, though to learn more you'll need to get on their list and read the code. The short kfs overview isn't meaty enough. Their team has tackled most of the work of providing a Linux API 'personality' for the OS kernel. The project is implemented in C++ and was built from the ground up to run (and scale) on modern, cache-coherent multiprocessor machines. See the K42 OS Home Page: http://www.research.ibm.com/K42/ Also of interest to file system designers will be (more at the home page) KFS: Exploring Flexibility in File System Design http://www.research.ibm.com/K42/papers/wsoBrazil2004.pdf Dilma Da Silva, Livio Soares, Orran Krieger, "KFS: Exploring Flexibility in File System Design", to appear in the Brazilian Workshop on Operating Systems (WSO'2004), Salvador, Brazil, August 2004. Meta-data Snapshotting: A simple mechanism for File System Consistency http://www.research.ibm.com/K42/papers/snapi03.pdf Livio Soares, Orran Krieger, Dilma Da Silva, "Meta-data Snapshotting: A simple mechanism for File System Consistency", SNAPI'03 (International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/O). Good luck, David
