Re: Pointers for understanding vfs/buffer/filesystem architecture

From: Eric Anderson (anderson_at_centtech.com)
Date: 08/06/05

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    Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 23:19:41 -0500
To: ALeine <aleine@austrosearch.net>

    ALeine wrote:
    > Eric Anderson wrote:
    >
    >>I've very interested in learning about FreeBSD's implementation
    >>of vfs/buffer cache/fs archicture.
    >
    >
    > You may want to download the following graphical overview of the
    > UFS/FFS filesystem that was made by Poul-Henning Kamp earlier
    > this year, it's very useful:
    >
    > http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/ufs.pdf
    >
    > If you want to print it out you'll need 18 sheets of paper.

    Oh my - that is quite impressive.. phk - thank you!
    I can't wait to print that out.. (I even wonder if it was generated
    automatically?)

    > You may also want to use something like doxygen (devel/doxygen in the
    > ports tree) to generate source code graphs and make browsing through
    > source code easier. Another resource that you may find helpful is
    > Robert Watson's FXR site:
    >
    > http://fxr.watson.org

    I've played with that a bit - quite useful. Thanks for the reminder of it.

    Eric 

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