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NAME="FILEIO-WRITING">Chapter 29. Writing a New Filesystem</H1
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>To create a new filesystem it is necessary to define the fstab entry
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and the file IO operations. The easiest way to do this is to copy an
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>To make this clearer, the following is a brief tour of the FILEIO
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// Forward definitions
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// Filesystem operations
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static int ramfs_mount    ( cyg_fstab_entry *fste, cyg_mtab_entry *mte );
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static int ramfs_umount   ( cyg_mtab_entry *mte );
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static int ramfs_open     ( cyg_mtab_entry *mte, cyg_dir dir, const char *name,
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static int ramfs_unlink   ( cyg_mtab_entry *mte, cyg_dir dir, const char *name );
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static int ramfs_mkdir    ( cyg_mtab_entry *mte, cyg_dir dir, const char *name );
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static int ramfs_rmdir    ( cyg_mtab_entry *mte, cyg_dir dir, const char *name );
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static int ramfs_setinfo  ( cyg_mtab_entry *mte, cyg_dir dir, const char *name,
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static int ramfs_fo_read      (struct CYG_FILE_TAG *fp, struct CYG_UIO_TAG *uio);
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>We define all of the fstab entries and all of the file IO
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>The first argument to this macro gives the fstab entry a name, the
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