Creating mkfs for my custom filesystem

[Sankar P]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Sankar P <sankar.curiosity at gmail.com>
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>> Hi,
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>> I am trying to write a simple filesystem to learn the basics of it.
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>> I have decided on a simple layout for my filesystem where the first
>> block will be the super block and   will contain the version
>> information etc. The second block will contain the list of inodes.
>> Third block onwards will be data blocks. Each file can grow only up to
>> a single block size. Thrid block will represent the first file, fourth
>> block for the second file and so on. Directories will not be
>> supported.
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> You can have a look at https://github.com/mkatiyar/testfs/blob/master/README
> which has a similar layout.
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ah, nice :)

I assumed that my layout should be patentably simple, rudimentary and
unique. Seems like it is not the case :)

Thanks.


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