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Welcome to the File System Construction Kit! This is a software
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package that accompanies the book, Practical File System Design, which
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Dominic Giampaolo wrote and is published by Morgan Kaufmann (ISBN
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1558604979).
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This package is a very simple framework in which you can experiment
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with a working (but simple) file system implementation. The framework
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is designed so that you can go in and modify one part of it, such as
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how the used and free disk blocks are managed, and not have to touch
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the rest of the file system. And because the package creates its file
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system inside of a normal file on your hard disk, you don't have to
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have a spare disk or require special (root) privileges to run the
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program. The goal is that this package should provide a convenient
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test bed for trying out new file system ideas without having to go
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through the pain and difficulty of creating a real kernel based file
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system. The API is generic enough however that after an you debug
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your implementation within this framework it could be moved to a real
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kernel based file system for the BeOS or a Unix like operating system.
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