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Linux is Obsolete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
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