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Edufs is going to be an implementation of a very basic *nix filesystem used for learning filesystem internals. The filesystem is based off of existing filesystems (ufs, ext2fs, msdosfs). It includes 3 components at the moment:
1) newfs_edufs - used for creating the filesystem
2) mount_edufs - used for mounting the filesystem
3) kernel code - the actual filesystem implementation

The project is meant to be a learning experience for everyone - myself included. I've been reading through kernel code for several months now learning how to get things working. It will pay off if someone can pick the code up, easily understand and learn it, and possibly even extend it.... read more