[Athfs-developer] Re: Details wrt documents and code

[Cristian F. P. G. <kem...@ya...>]

This is my first mail to all of you (I hope it won't be the last)... I
got some troubles with my computer, my home, my classes, but everything
is fine right now, so I can keep going working with the code and with
the project.

Let's write some stuff about the last questions and messages on the list
(by the way, I got serious troubles sending mail to the mail list with
my Evolution, if any of you know how to fix it... welcome).<BR>

First, AFS (AtheOS FileSystem) is the official name of the AthFS, but
the Andrew FileSystem was first in the list, so we choose another name
for the Project... what is the project about?... easy, the first goal is
to write a Linux FileSystem Kernel Module using the 2.4 kernel series
for the AtheOS File System used by AtheOS and Syllable Operating System
(I guess it will change the name to SyllableStor or something similar in
the SyllableOS). The next goal with the project is to write the
documentation about this filesystem (specs, and similar). We hope to
write some userland applications in the future to handle this FS too (as
a filecheck and format utilities for Linux and other OSes -for example,
there is not any file system integrity check system for this in Syllable
nor AtheOS-).<BR>

AFS is based on the BFS (Be File System) and it is based in a multimedia
storage file system. It has a lot of extensions to handle MIME types and
similar. We are trying to base the driver code based in the actual BeFS
Linux Kernel Module but we hope to write our own code in a very close
future.

Right now there are just a few lines and chunks of code, and I almost
finishing the documentation about some few stuff of this file system,
and yes, all the doc is been written from scratch looking in the code of
the BeFS LKM and the Syllable sourcecode. I guess it will be very useful
the Dominic Giampaolo's book: "Practical File System Design with the
BeOS File System"... but I haven't...

Try to understand the code and write some doc is something difficult,
and there is another big trouble in my hands, English is not my native
language; so, I will need somebody to fix my grammar and spelling
errors.

It is true, the project has been something like dead the past two
months... but right now it is time to start working...

I will like to keep in touch with all of you, let me know anything...
and thanks a lot Stuart to forward me the mails...

Xaludos...

Xtian

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 01:05, Stuart Longland wrote:
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> | hi Stuart,
> |
> | Wanted to know if you've prepared any design documents related to the
> | AtheOS Filesystem? ...
> 
> There isn't any as yet (as far as I know)
> 
> | What has been the approach till date, as in how did you go about
> | making the small section of code...
> 
> The small section of code was based on the BeOS Filesystem driver --
> since the AtheOS & BeOS filesystems are similar.  The basic algorithms
> are also largely done for us through the code in Syllable.  It's a
> matter of banging out a similar piece of code that will fit into the
> Linux kernel source.
> 
> - --
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