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Files by Name (Minix 3 Filesystem)
- pavehawk2007 6y agoJust so you know, this is part of a larger tutorial at https://osblog.stephenmarz.com https://osblog.stephenmarz.com where I write a RISC-V operating system using Rust. Let me know if you have any questions!
- giancarlostoro 6y agoCurious what kind of hardware are you using? I'm interested in trying out RISC-V for myself, but aside from Qemu I'm not sure where I'd start.
- pavehawk2007 6y agoI use the Kendryte K215 which is a dual-core, RV64GC inside of the Sipeed Maixduino (Arduino form factor): https://www.seeedstudio.com/sipeed https://www.seeedstudio.com/sipeed
- imheresamir 6y agoHave you found the TRM yet? I really like the idea of this chip but the released documentation for it is woefully incomplete.
- pavehawk2007 6y agoUnfortunately no. I've been reverse engineering it from their BSP. It's slower than I'd like.
- quasarj 6y agoI did immediately wonder how Minix was written in Rust, since it predates it by quite a bit.
- lordleft 6y agoI feel like Minix is underappreciated. I'm reading Tannenbaum's Modern Operating Systems at the moment and he makes a persuasive appeal for some of its unique takes of the *nix OS family.
- pavehawk2007 6y agoMinix 3 has taken on a life of its own and is maintained here: https://minix3.org/ https://minix3.org/ I had trouble finding really good documentation on the filesystem itself, so it took a bit of trial-and-error to figure out the structure.
- lordleft 6y agoYou're doing impressive work! Thank you for writing this up and sharing your progress!
- pavehawk2007 6y agoThank you! I appreciate the kind words.
- sillywalk 6y agoFrom the website, it looks like development stopped in 2016. I read some of the papers on Minix3, and the Loris storage stack. From the bits I understood, it looks pretty interesting.
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- abawany 6y agoIt is a really good book and I credit it for saving me when I took an undergraduate class in operating systems a long time ago: the book chosen for the course was mostly incomprehensible to me but reading Tannenbaum's tome was eye opening and insightful. Edit: spelling.
- joshbaptiste 6y agoWait so this is an alternative Minix 3 FS written in Rust?
- pavehawk2007 6y agoAlternative? No. It's a component of the full RISC-V operating system.
- joshbaptiste 6y agoah ok