On Thursday 06 December 2007, Ruslan Sivak wrote: > I'm not very knowledgeable on how filesystems work. Is there a primer I > can brush up on somewhere? I'm thinking about implementing a proof of > concept using Java and Fuse. > > Russ This is really a google question - most stuff is available online and documented pretty well... This is one that has a very good structure to it but may be a little hard to read: http://hssl.cs.jhu.edu/papers/peterson-ext3cow03.pdf Sun has some nice, entry level stuff on zfs http://www.sun.com/software/media/real/zfs_learningcenter/high_bandwidth.html If you want to go deeper into zfs, Jeff Bonwick's blog has a lot of different articles about it http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/category/ZFS Peter.