I really don't understand the fascination with a blog. Not sure why I am starting one within kerneltrap except to kind-of journel my progress to the end of my project. I have embarked on a project to write a slack space file system as part of a graduate project. When I tell people about what I am doing it is usually followed by "why?" or "what is it good for?". Those questions delayed my development for over a year, before i talked with a very smart teacher who told me that the answer to those questions. She stated that it is a graduate project, there is no "why" or "what for". This is a part of your education. It all made since and hit the ground running. Yet I seem to stumble a lot. The slack space file system i am working on is to be done entirely within the kernel and probably be totally useless. I would like to see it become a mountable file system. Just type a command: mount -t slack /dev/hdaX /mnt/slack. Would that be cool? It is a long way away.