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		ridiculous_fish on July 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Writing a file system from scratch in Rust 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

Q6T46nT668w6i3m on July 27, 2020 | [–]

Frankly, not too much has changed since Giampaolo. In fact, it is still standard reading in many graduate seminars on the subject!

vondur on July 27, 2020 | [–]

Is he the guy who did the BeOS filesystem?

peterkelly on July 27, 2020 | [–]

Yes. Later went to Apple and did Spotlight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Giampaolo

saagarjha on July 28, 2020 | | [–]

And APFS: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/701/

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