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Re:Ask HN: Recommended guides for learning filesystems? by nomadlogic on Friday January 20, 2017 @12:33PM (#13445361)
"The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" not only does a great job at covering how the UFS filesystem is implemented, but also does a great job at explaining how and Unix systems are implemented. I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in Unix internals.

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operati...

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Re:Ask HN: Recommended guides for learning filesystems? by vram22 on Sunday January 22, 2017 @01:35PM (#13456427)
Is that book similar in structure to the book "The Design of the Unix Operating System" by Maurice Bach? (or is it Design and Implementation of ... don't remember - had read it some years ago).
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Re:Ask HN: Recommended guides for learning filesystems? by dekhn on Friday January 20, 2017 @01:47PM (#13445989)
Came here to say this. Fantastic book for self-learners.
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