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diff --git a/sysutils/fs-kit/DESCR b/sysutils/fs-kit/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ace6e064787 --- /dev/null +++ b/sysutils/fs-kit/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Welcome to the File System Construction Kit! This is a software +package that accompanies the book, Practical File System Design, which +Dominic Giampaolo wrote and is published by Morgan Kaufmann (ISBN +1558604979). + +This package is a very simple framework in which you can experiment +with a working (but simple) file system implementation. The framework +is designed so that you can go in and modify one part of it, such as +how the used and free disk blocks are managed, and not have to touch +the rest of the file system. And because the package creates its file +system inside of a normal file on your hard disk, you don't have to +have a spare disk or require special (root) privileges to run the +program. The goal is that this package should provide a convenient +test bed for trying out new file system ideas without having to go +through the pain and difficulty of creating a real kernel based file +system. The API is generic enough however that after an you debug +your implementation within this framework it could be moved to a real +kernel based file system for the BeOS or a Unix like operating system. |