Linux file systems development, Unlimited

This is a straw man wiki for Linux file systems development. Please edit me! The password is linuxfs.

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Read some recent docs:

The Linux File Systems Workshop Summary at Linux Weekly News

Chunkfs description:

http://www.fenrus.org/chunkfs.txt

Adaptable filesystems framework paper - explores the possibility of easing the problem of switching formats by supporting on-disk layout flexibility at a per-element level.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/suparna/OLS2006-fs-adapt.pdf

Topics

• Journalling
• DiskFormat
• Fsck
• IoSubsystem
• MetaData
• DiskSpaceAllocation