Writing a file system from scratch in Rust
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Writing a file system from scratch in Rust
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Re: Writing a file system from scratch in Rust
#2We've attempted this as well and it's not as simple as it seems. The issues we've run into have made us reconsider porting our FS handlers to Rust, although we are cautiously optimistic about later results.
Re: Writing a file system from scratch in Rust
#3I 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.
Re: Writing a file system from scratch in Rust
#4There’s also this file system chapter from a series on writing an OS in Rust: http://osblog.stephenmarz.com/ch10.html
Re: Writing a file system from scratch in Rust
#5I 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.
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
Re: Writing a file system from scratch in Rust
#6We've attempted this as well and it's not as simple as it seems. The issues we've run into have made us reconsider porting our FS handlers to Rust, although we are cautiously optimistic about later results.
Any more specifics?
Re: Writing a file system from scratch in Rust
#7It would be nice if the intro had a brief explanation of why a disk needs to be divided into blocks. Otherwise, I really enjoyed this read from the perspective of a lay person.
Re: Writing a file system from scratch in Rust
#8There’s also this file system chapter from a series on writing an OS in Rust: http://osblog.stephenmarz.com/ch10.html
And for code there is TFS https://github.com/redox-os/tfs
Re: Writing a file system from scratch in Rust
#9I 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.
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
Frankly, not too much has changed since Giampaolo. In fact, it is still standard reading in many graduate seminars on the subject!
Re: Writing a file system from scratch in Rust
#10It would be nice if the intro had a brief explanation of why a disk needs to be divided into blocks. Otherwise, I really enjoyed this read from the perspective of a lay person.
The disk / inodes need to know where to start looking for a file's contents, like the address in memory for RAM. Or like the mail: We subdivide by city, then ZIP, then street, then address.
So the inode says "The data for my file starts at block 72 and is 3 blocks long" (or something like that). The disk then goes there, and reads blocks 72,73,74.
Each block is 4KiB large often, so if you have a 10KiB file, you still take up ceiling(file size/block size) blocks.
That's why there is a difference between "File size" and "Size on disk" when you look at disk usage summaries.