Skeleton Filesystem

Andriy Gapon avg at icyb.net.ua
Tue Nov 2 18:16:36 UTC 2010


on 02/11/2010 19:45 Chad David said the following:
> 
> I'm porting our filesystem from Solaris to FreeBSD, and part of that effort is
> getting back into FreeBSD and getting familiar with VFS.
> 
> I've been writing a simple module that focuses on the VFS interfaces themselves,
> and not the underlying fileystem implementation in the hope of ending up with a
> concise but complete skeleton that can be used as a reference, and potentially a
> learning tool.
> 
> I have permission from my current employer to release this code, and am wondering
> if there is any interest from others?  If there isn't, I'll just focus on my port
> any leave you guys alone. If there is, I can make the code available and spend
> more effort on documenting the flow and logic.
> 
> What I'm hoping for is feedback from people (who are maybe not experts already) on
> what is clear and what is not.  If the code is straight forward, it should be
> useful as a starting point for others, or even just as a reference for the curious.
> 
> Anyway, if you are interested feel free to contact me, and I'd be happy to make
> the code available.

That sounds terribly useful for different uses, please share it!
I myself took a shot at this although in much more primitive from [avgfs :-)].

Thanks!
-- 
Andriy Gapon


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