C - Need help for understanding FAT driver

The FAT filesystem is a design from Microsoft and the whole Windows universe. As you probably know, FAT does not support Inodes like ext3 or other UNIX/LINUX filesystem.

The FreeBSD kernel provide a FAT filesystem driver but I've problems to understand the code and need help for answering the following questions:

Inodes must be generated on the fly by file access. When exactly does this happened?
How does FreeBSD generate Inodes?
How does the kernel FAT driver manage the file descriptors?

Thank you very much for your help.

Juanitou

Jul 20, 2015

#2

If not done yet, you should try asking also in the freebsd-fs -- Filesystems mail list.

SirDice

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Jul 20, 2015

#3

Keep in mind this is mostly a user driven forum. There are very few developers here. You'll probably have more luck asking these questions on the freebsd-fs@ mailinglist.

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simdlx

Jul 20, 2015

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#4

Thank you. I'll try the mailing list.

C Need help for understanding FAT driver

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