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From: "Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] simplest disk filesystem
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:35:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1405460154.73439.YahooMailBasic@web184706.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EE02BB5F-351A-450D-A2FE-5821649B4544@fb.com>

> I’m trying to make a tutorial explaining the code of
> a not too large kernel (9), but there are too many
> things to explain so I have to cut things.  So having
> a simple fs which does not require to explain 9p, the
> rpc, the mount device, etc would be great.

In that case, I'd suggest using devroot since it's useful
to know how things get bootstrapped and having a
small set of files in the kernel image is a handy technique
for embedded applications.  Although it doesn't talk to
any disk devices, you can point to the next tutorial and
explain that most file systems run as user applications
and communicate with the disks by way of 9p.

BLS




  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-15 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-15 17:53 Yoann Padioleau
2014-07-15 17:57 ` andrey mirtchovski
2014-07-15 18:05   ` Yoann Padioleau
2014-07-15 18:11     ` Lee Fallat
2014-07-15 18:12     ` David du Colombier
2014-07-16 17:17   ` erik quanstrom
2014-07-15 20:52 ` Brian L. Stuart
2014-07-15 21:18   ` Yoann Padioleau
2014-07-15 21:35     ` Brian L. Stuart [this message]
2014-07-15 22:57     ` Kurt H Maier
2014-07-16 17:46       ` erik quanstrom
2014-07-16 18:10         ` Kurt H Maier
2014-07-16 18:17 sl
2014-07-16 18:41 ` Yoann Padioleau

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