On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 6:03 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I need some details about ffs, I read the kernel source but my c
> knowledge is very basic. I understood all about the superblock but my
> problem is understand how the files are allocated on the disk.
> Anyone could give me more details about files allocation ?
>
You should start from the paper that described the design and
implementation:
https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/FFS.pdf
as linked to from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_File_System
Kirk McKusick has continued to revise and improve FFS; many of those
changes have been included in OpenBSD. Check his biography and his
personal website for links to papers and presentations.
Philip Guenther
