Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:47:28 -0500 | From | Steve French <> | Subject | Re: Documenting the VFS |
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> Where can I found an up to date documentation about the VFS interface? There is an ok chapter on filesystems in the O'Reilly Linux Kernel book, and the Linux Device Drivers book (also from O'Reilly) is essential reading.
Pay careful attention to fs/libfs.c and the nice small fs fs/ramfs which calls libfs which are both useful as they help understand the minimum that certain vfs interfaces require. This was helpful to me when I wrote the cifs filesystem.
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt has a little bit of documentation, as does Documentation/Locking and Documentation/directory-locking.
I may try to write something (perhaps articles?) longer and more formal if I get time.
Finally the lwn series (weekly articles) on kernel development is invaluable in describing what changes.
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