New Book on "Linux Filesystems"

[William von Hagen <vonhagen@vonhagen.org>]

I've lurked on this list for a long time, and have learned many details
on installing and using XFS. Thanks! I'm finally posting to solicit
feedback on my recently-published book on "Linux Filesystems" (SAMS,
ISBN 0672322722). This book discusses the use, theory, installation, and
integration of journaling and distributed filesystems on Linux, and also
discusses what I call 'filesystem adapters' - things like Samba, the NCP
tools, and netatalk, which graft together existing filesystems from
multiple platforms. The book talks about the XFS, Ext3, JFS, and
ReiserFS journaling filesystems (overview, patching the kernel as
needed, administering, using, etc.). It also talks about OpenAFS and
NFS.I also provide some benchmark results (Bonnie, Postmark, etc.) to
give some empirical comparison.

This isn't purely a promotional posting - I'd sincerely appreciate
feedback and suggestions if you know anyone who is trying to use one of
these filesystems and needs a how-to book and a reference. This list is
great for people who are already in the know, but I'm hoping that a
usable book on the subject will help popularize the use of filesystems
such as these.

Thanks!

  Bill von Hagen