Simple in memory file system

filesystems operating-system osdev
user173973 picture user173973 · Apr 12, 2011 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

Can anybody point me to a simple (can't stress this enough) implementation of an in memory file system? If I can create a file and do a simple cat file.txt it's more than enough.

I would like to use it as part of my toy OS.

Answer

Mohamed IBrahim picture Mohamed IBrahim · Jul 5, 2011

The OSDev wiki site might help you. You can also ask your questions there and if you look at wiki and their forum you will pretty likely get your answer.

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