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by **Hemant Thakka** » Sat, 30 Nov 1996 04:00:00

I am taking an operating systems design and implementation course. One
of my project assignment is to implement an MSDOS filesystem support for
MINIX. MINIX is a limited clone of UNIX for PCs developed by Andrew
Tannenbaum. MINIX is intended for educational purposes. MINIX uses a
UNIX like filesystem.

Knowing that Linux already has MSDOS filesystem support, I thought
looking at the MSDOS fs source code in Linux would be a good place to
start. Trying to understand the concepts and the design idea from
reading the source code is an extremely slow process, and time is a very
precisious resource.

What I am looking for is a design concepts (i.e. algorithms) for the
MSDOS filesystem support on Linux. I am looking for the basic
conceptual ideas on implementing the MSDOS filesystem on Linux. Ideas
such as how to map MSDOS FAT into inode, etc.

I would appreciate any help on this subject.

by **Kristian K?hnto** » Sun, 01 Dec 1996 04:00:00

>What I am looking for is a design concepts (i.e. algorithms) for the
>MSDOS filesystem support on Linux. I am looking for the basic
>conceptual ideas on implementing the MSDOS filesystem on Linux. Ideas
>such as how to map MSDOS FAT into inode, etc.

Have a look at Andrew Tanenbaums book on operating systems. In
the filesystem chapter he talks about the MS-DOS filesystem as
well and explains some aspects of its internal structure.

Kristian
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