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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!uunet!uunet.ca!geac!alias!mark From: mark@alias.com (Mark Andrews) Subject: Re: wanted: docs for vfs, vm Message-ID: <1993Mar10.180524.20364@alias.com> Sender: news@alias.com (News Owner) Organization: Alias Research, Inc., Toronto ON Canada References: <1ngb6q$mig@wzv.win.tue.nl> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 18:05:24 GMT Lines: 26 In <1ngb6q$mig@wzv.win.tue.nl> guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes: >Can anyone tell me where to find docs on the vm system and the vfs interfaces? >And, last but not least, where can I find a doc on the usage of the asm() >gcc statement? >-Guido >-- >Guido van Rooij | Internet: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl >Bisschopsmolen 16 | Phone: ++31.40.461433 >5612 DS Eindhoven | ((12+144+20)+3*sqrt(4))/7 >The Netherlands | +(5*11)=9^2+0 The VM system is the CMU Mach VM tuned for BSD, so Mach documents should do for that. As for the vfs, there is the original usenix paper by Steve Kleiman in the Summer `85 proceedings. This article describes Sun's vfs implementation. There was also an article in the Summer `86 EUUG proceedings, `Toward a Compatible Filesystem Interface' that talks about the differences between Sun vfs and BSD vfs. Lastly, the most recent usenix proceedings, Winter `93 has an article, `An Implementation of a Log-Structured File System for UNIX' which talks about the modications to the vfs/vnode interface to support the LFS. As for the asm statement, I believe that you are talking about the extension to C that was mentioned in a special Bell Systems Tech Journal which centred on Unix.