Linux Virtual File System

4/8/98


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Table of Contents

Linux Virtual File System

Aims

History

Linux Filesystems

Linux Filesystems (ctd)

Linux is Obsolete

Linux VFS

User level file access

VFS

File system level

Anatomy of stat system call

Anatomy of fstatfs system call

Data structures

Shorthand method notation

namei

Superblocks

Super Operations (sss_)

Inodes

What’s inside an inode - 1

What’s inside an inode -2

Inode state

Inode Cache

Sales

Inode operations (iii_)

Dentry world

Inside dentry’s

Dentry associated lists

Dcache

Dentry methods

Dentry particulars:

Style

Memory mapping

Author: Braam

Email: braam@cs.cmu.edu

Home Page: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu

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