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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: HELP: VFS Documentation?!
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In article <1992Oct27.155040.8385@wuecl.wustl.edu> qarl@wuecl.wustl.edu (Karl Stiefvater) writes:
>
>OKay: I'm desperate. I have a very limited time span to finish my current 
>project.
>
>I need documentation on the VFS interface.
>
>Online techreports (or anything you can send me) would be ideal.  Names of
>more classic forms of documentation (books) are also accepted.


UNIX(R) System V/386
Release 4 Version 3
Programmer's Guide
Writing File
System Types
[ Restricted to SVR4.x source licenses -- get from AT&T ]


Writing a Device Driver for AIX Version 3.2
IBM Publication GG24-3629-01
(With companion diskette "Sample code.")


AIX Version 3.2 for RISC System/6000(tm)
Kernel Extensions and Device Support
Programming Concepts
IBM Publication SC23-2207-01


AIX Version 3.2 for RISC System/6000(tm)
Technical Reference:
Kernel and Subsystems
Volume 4
IBM Publication SC23-2385-00


S. R. Kleiman
Vnodes: An architecture for multiple file system types in Sun UNIX
USENIX Conference Proceedings
pages 238-247
USENIX, June 1986


David S. H. Rosenthal
Evolving the vnode interface
USENIX Conference Proceedings
pages 107-118
USENIX, June 1990


John S. Heidemann, Gerald J. Popek
A Layered Approach to File System Developement
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Los Angeles
Technical Report CSD-910007
March 1991
[ get via anonymous FTP from ftp.cs.ucla.edu ]


Hope these references help.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
					terry_lambert@novell.com
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