Linux Filesystems [Paperback]

William Von Hagen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 2002 | Series: White Book

Linux Filesystems focuses on two different aspects of filesystems for Linux. First, local filesystems which use journaling, including SGI's XFS; IBM's EFS; Red Hat's extfs3, and Reiser. Second, it discusses distributed network-oriented filesystems such as: NFS, the classic distributed filesystem originally written by Sun Microsystems and since ported to every Unix and Linux platform.; OpenAFS, a version of IBM/Transarc's networked filesystem that was recently released into the public domain by IBM; Netatalk, the package for Linux interoperability with Macintosh filesystems; Samba, the package for Linux interoperability with Windows SMB filesystems, and NCP tools (Novell Core Protocols), the tools supporting Linux interoperability with Novell's NetWare.

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From the Back Cover

This book focuses on two different aspects of filesystems for Linux. First, local filesystems which use journaling are discussed, including SGI's XFS, IBM's JFS, Red Hat's ext3, and the ReiserFS.

Distributed network-oriented filesystems are also discussed and include such systems as:

* NFS, the classic distributed filesystem originally written by Sun Microsystems and since ported to every Unix and Linux platform;
* OpenAFS, a version of IBM/Transarc's networked filesystem that was recently released into the public domain by IBM;
* Netatalk, the package for Linux interoperability with Macintosh filesystems;
* Samba, the package for Linux interoperability with Windows SMB filesystems;
* NCP tools (Novell Core Protocols), the tools supporting Linux interoperability with Novell's NetWare.

About the Author

William von Hagen has been a Unix system administrator and fanatic since 1982 and an avid user of distributed filesystems since the mid-1980's at Carnegie-Mellon University. He has worked as a system administrator, writer, computing facilities operations manager, developer, development manager, documentation manager, and drummer. An avid computer collector specializing in workstations, he owns more than 200 computer systems (which the city of Pittsburgh requests that he never turn on at the same time).

Product Details

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Sams (January 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672322722
• ISBN-13: 978-0672322723
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,606,937 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book - updated version is needed, May 16, 2003

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This review is from: Linux Filesystems (Paperback)

Great book, but shows it's age - things are changing fast in Linux world (it's based on 2.4.9 kernel and so
most of those filesystems weren't integrated).
Benchmarking info is very interesting but was collected
on very low-end hardware (1-2 Celeron500 with 1 IDE drive).
I wish that updated 2nd edition (2.6 kernel and benchmarks
on modern hardware - like 2CPU and at least 8-10 hd) will be published soon.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative and Useful, January 30, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Linux Filesystems (Paperback)

I'd been looking for a book on journaling and networked file systems for Linux for a while, and was happy to find this one. There is one other book on Linux file systems, but this one is the one to get. It discusses the EXT3, JFS, XFS and Reiser journaling file systems, and also the NFS and OpenAFS networked file systems. It provides plenty of background information about basic concepts, but also provides real explanations of how to build kernels that support these file systems and how to configure, administer, and use them. I was really impressed. The book also talks about interoperating with Macintosh, Windows and Novell systems - it was handy to find all of that in one book. It is well written and the author has a sense of humor that I enjoyed. The section on the Distributed Computing Environment's distributed file system was especially funny (and from what I hear, true).

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, though needs an update, March 1, 2004

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Joe Wolenski (Cheswick, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Linux Filesystems (Paperback)

This book was grea, though it talks about an old kernel version. I neede to know about journaling filesystems, and this boom\k not only told me what I needed, but told me what to avoid.