How does the kernel setup the file system

[Fu Kai]

hi,
thanks you all, Rahul's suggestion really helps me.

On 1/8/11, Rahul Deshmukh <rahul.deshmukh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think you are looking for following:
>
> fs/ext2/super.c:
>
> init_ext2_fs()-> register_filesystem(&ext2_fs_type)->
> ext2_get_sb()->ext2_fill_super()
>
> For every file system in linux kernel,  first it register itself with
> register_filesystem().
> Here this call is called when ext2  module is loaded. Then when file system
> is mount
> it will call ext2_fill_super() which will read the on disk super block and
> load it into memory.
>
> The on disk super block is written when user format the device with given
> file system.
>
> I hope that will help.
>
> - Rahul
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Fu Kai <kapenware at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi folks,
>> I'm looking the source code about linux file system recently. I have
>> scanned over ext2,
>> and now I'm very curious about how does the kernel setup the ext2 up, but
>> I
>> couldn't locate
>> the corresponding code. Could anybody give any advice for me?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> owr
>>
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>


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Thanks,
Fu Kai