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Re: Writing a file system from scratch in Rust

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Post by still_grokking » Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 8:31 PM UTC

fiddlerwoaroof wrote: post #26

bluejekyll wrote: post #24

Always fun to see this type of work. I notice the usage of OsString, and it made me wonder: does the way an OS encodes it’s strings potentially make this FS non-portable between OSes? If I want to mount a drive formatted with this FS, would the OsString be potentially non-portable? There was a lot of discussion in the past around TFS https://github.com/redox-os/tfs , my understanding is that effort has kinda lost ste…

This is really cool, I wish someone would fund it.

That dead[1] project?

Actually everything around "Redox" looks like:

https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/tfs/issues/66

[1] https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/tfs/issues/80

Re: Writing a file system from scratch in Rust

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Post by dang » Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 10:08 PM UTC

aquabeagle wrote: post #18

frankly, It never helped on my resume but I enjoyed writing. Frankly, if I saw this code on a resume, I'd keep looking. scanf("%s",buffer); // Debug :: printf("hash : %ld\n",hash("cdRoot")); switch(hash(buffer)) { //command : "ls" case 5863588:

Please don't do this here.

Re: Writing a file system from scratch in Rust

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Post by qchris » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

still_grokking wrote: post #61

fiddlerwoaroof wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is really cool, I wish someone would fund it.

That dead[1] project? Actually everything around "Redox" looks like: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/tfs/issues/66 [1] https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/tfs/issues/80

Redox is still very much active...

[1] https://gitlab.redox-os.org/groups/redox-os/-/activity

[2] https://www.redox-os.org/news/