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Re:Writing a file system from scratch in Rust by unethical_ban on Monday July 27, 2020 @01:55PM (#23967630)
I have read down to the implementation section, but for my money, this is the best way to describe the high level function and behavior of a filesystem that I have ever seen.
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Re:Writing a file system from scratch in Rust by ridiculous_fish on Monday July 27, 2020 @02:00PM (#23967677)
A very accessible (though dated) intro to filesystems is Practical File System Design, by Dominic Giampaolo.

PDF link: http://www.nobius.org/practical-file-system-design.pdf

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Re:Writing a file system from scratch in Rust by Q6T46nT668w6i3m on Monday July 27, 2020 @02:13PM (#23967793)
Frankly, not too much has changed since Giampaolo. In fact, it is still standard reading in many graduate seminars on the subject!
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Re:Writing a file system from scratch in Rust by vondur on Monday July 27, 2020 @02:19PM (#23967857)
Is he the guy who did the BeOS filesystem?
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Re:Writing a file system from scratch in Rust by peterkelly on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:22PM (#23969010)
Yes. Later went to Apple and did Spotlight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Giampaolo

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Re:Writing a file system from scratch in Rust by saagarjha on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:12AM (#23972212)
And APFS: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/701/
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