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From: walker@unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wanted: Guide to Writing Filesystems
Message-ID: <1990Jul03.211323.14010@unx.sas.com>
Date: 3 Jul 90 21:13:23 GMT
References: <12880@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
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In article <12880@shlump.nac.dec.com> plouff@kali.enet.dec.com writes:
>
>The title says it all:  are there any guides the net can recommend as 
>background for understanding alternate filesystems?  The obvious example
>code is Olaf Siebert's MSH, for handling MS-DOS floppies in Amiga
>drives.  Where else can one turn for guidance and examples?
>

Try the Software Distillery's file system, available with full source.
John Toebes and I wrote a series of articles in Transactor for the Amiga
a year ago that cover writing a filesystem in great detail.  I have also
distributed source to the NET: network file system, which is based on
the SDFS.

 
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