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From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: alltom@gmail.com,
	"Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Easiest way to make a filesystem
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:42:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4e6962a0801140542l222582c1p7eda63bf1cb98fa4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <326364c20801140111v1bf9b574p80ea0305edf09c14@mail.gmail.com>

On Jan 14, 2008 3:11 AM, Tom Lieber <alltom@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is the easiest way to make a filesystem to make one in C in the way
> described in Francisco's book? Are there any wrapping libraries for
> the simplest filesystems? Or filesystems like these to base my work
> on?
>

Take a look at the man page for p9file(2) - its a starting point for
writing simple file systems.  I don't think there is something which
explicitly helps with stackable/layered file systems -- might be nice
if you created one out of your efforts ;)

       -eric


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-14 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-14  9:11 Tom Lieber
2008-01-14  9:20 ` Christopher Nielsen
2008-01-14 13:42 ` Eric Van Hensbergen [this message]
2008-01-14 20:10   ` roger peppe
2008-01-14 20:30     ` Tom Lieber
2008-01-14 20:40     ` hiro
2008-01-14 21:00     ` Gary Wright
2008-01-14 21:10       ` roger peppe
2008-01-14 21:23         ` Gary Wright
2008-01-14 21:29     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-01-15 12:22       ` roger peppe

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