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Chapter 22: File Systems and the VFS

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 1:22 am
by Mike
Hello everyone,

I apologize for the delay for this release - Chapter 22 of our OSDev Series pre-release is here at last! It covers VFS and more file system topics in detail along with a new filesystem driver for our kernel. After this is done we will be able to load files off of disk with the ability to support any number of file systems and devices. This completes the basic framework needed for us to start diving into executing programs and, a little later, going into multitasking.

Please post comments or suggestions if there are any.

Re: Chapter 22: File Systems and the VFS

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 3:06 am
by Zig
Great :-)

Re: Chapter 22: File Systems and the VFS

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 1:06 pm
by Ecoboy
Waw! That's great! :mrgreen:
I hope that you continue this way .. I LOVE YOUR JOB and your explaining way ..
Thaks Mike :)

Re: Chapter 22: File Systems and the VFS

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 3:12 am
by pathos
Nice! Can't wait to dive into it tomorrow!

Re: Chapter 22: File Systems and the VFS

Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 2:12 pm
by pathos
Any release date set for the demo?

Re: Chapter 22: File Systems and the VFS

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:00 am
by Mike
Hello,

I apologize for the delay. The demo will be released tomorrow or the following day depending on schedule. Along with this, our scan code set reference and new multiboot chapter has also been released.

Re: Chapter 22: File Systems and the VFS

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 2:50 pm
by pathos
Mike wrote:Hello,

I apologize for the delay. The demo will be released tomorrow or the following day depending on schedule. Along with this, our scan code set reference and new multiboot chapter has also been released.
No need to apologize -- I know you're busy! Thanks for the hard work!

Re: Chapter 22: File Systems and the VFS

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 3:13 pm
by pathos
Mike wrote:The demo will be released tomorrow or the following day
:D -> :lol: -> :o -> :) -> :| -> :? -> :( -> :cry:

Haha... just kidding.

Re: Chapter 22: File Systems and the VFS

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 3:31 pm
by __asm
god i thought my girlfriend was a tease :roll: :lol:

Re: Chapter 22: File Systems and the VFS

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:16 am
by Mike
Hello,

Sorry for the delay - I am cleaning up the demo somewhat and finishing features. 2 new bugs were found (there are workarounds in the demo though).

It should be released officially tomorrow with an updated chapter text.

Re: Chapter 22: File Systems and the VFS

Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 8:44 pm
by Insightsoft
Hello my hero!

Please, consider this:

On demo22; in project=Fat12; mouse right-click; choose "Properties"; in Configuration Properties->C/C++->Additional Include Directory; change from physical to relational paths;

From: c:\xx\yy\kernel; to ..\kernel; ..\include

Re: Chapter 22: File Systems and the VFS

Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 11:02 pm
by Mike
Hello,

:shock: Woops, did not see that before release. I'll see about fixing that and re-releasing it. Thanks for letting me know :D

Re: Chapter 22: File Systems and the VFS

Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 9:23 pm
by pathos
Mike, I may have found a bug.

I could have created it myself while messing around, but since I'm not able to compile the demo, I can't test your code. I'm getting an infinite loop if I try to read a nonexistent text file from a folder. For example, I have A:\folder\b.txt. If I type read, then \folder\b.txt, it reads the file. But if I type read, then \folder\a.txt, it constantly loops in the fsysFatOpenSubDir procedure, in the while(!kFile.eof).

Could you, or someone else, test this out on the demo code to see if it happens with it, or did I create this while messing around?