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by twohey 3947 days ago
Dominic Giampaolo wrote "Practical File System Design with the Be File System" which he has made freely available at: http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf

I found it to be well written and interesting when I was a university student first going deep on the subject.

The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd Edition) by McKusick is also well written and covers some of the same ground.

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He was probably thinking more of 9P fileservers, rather than disk filesystems.