File System Design part 1, XFS 57
rchapman writes "Generally, file systems are not considered "sexy." When a young programmer wants to do something really cool, his or her
first thought is generally not "Dude, two words... File System." However, I am what is politely termed "different." I find file systems very interesting and they have seldom been more so than they are right now. Hans Reiser is working on getting Reiser4 integrated into the Linux kernel, the BSD's are working on getting a journaled file system together, and Sun Microsystems just recently released a beta of ZFS into OpenSolaris. "
File system design (Score:5, Informative)
If you're interested in this, you'll probably also be interested in Practical File System Design with the Be File System [nobius.org] (PDF), by Dominic Giampaolo, the designer of the Be file system. There's also a Slashdot review [slashdot.org] of this book.
Re:Blatant error (Score:2, Informative)
Doesn't Live Up To Its Billing (Score:3, Informative)
You were lost at points between trying to sound like an expert to trying to sound like a grandfather explaining the grande old days of filesystem development. Are you a storyteller or a teacher? Pick one.
Content-wise, there wasn't really much there for me. You spent a lot of time explaining the problems of a binary tree, but I think that your target audience already understands the time complexity of a binary tree. Then, you glaze over the B+ tree because its complicated.
Sorry if I sound harsh. I hope that this comes off as constructive criticism.
Re:obligatory (Score:4, Informative)
The good news is, you don't need to install plan 9 to use venti. You can do it with plan9port [swtch.com] on a Linux/FreeBSD/Mac OS X/etc box today.
Re:Oh, snap. (Score:3, Informative)
What the fuck?
Have you read this [die.net], or even used XFS before, for that matter?