This is an interesting visualization techniques for software analysis. From the article:
Despite being a very important part of any operating system, file systems tend to get little attention. The first part is a detail analysis of one particular Linux Kernel tree and the second is a shorter one done over a large number of file systems from Linux Kernel 2.6.0 to 2.6.29. After that there is a small section that shows some aspects of the BSD family. After conclusions there is an appendix consisting of three things: the first one explains how the file systems for Linux were compiled, the second one shows timelines for the releases of Linux Kernel, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD; the last is a detailed map of the external symbols of the kernel modules analyzed in the second section.
A Visual Expedition Inside the Linux File Systems
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- Last Updated: Jun/18/2009
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Thanks a lot, very interesting. Good find. Cheers.
Thanks for the link!
Very nice to see the evolution of Linux File Systems.
Thanks for sharing nice info!
Now I’m going to understand the nature of superblocks!! something I can’t understands for years!! :D