Perth Linux Users' Group

March 2008 Seminar

Title: "Linux Filesystem Internals"
When: Tuesday, 11th March 2008, 7:30pm - 9:00pm.
Where: 'Futuresphere', Christ Church Grammar School, Queenslea Drive, Claremont
Presenter: Ian Kent

Linux is able to support many different file systems using the same method as other Unix variants by using a facility called the Virtual Filesystem Switch (VFS). The VFS provides a well defined interface to the kernel for those developing filesystem modules. This talk aims at describing, very briefly, the structures and methods provided by the VFS for filesystem implementers and will look more closely at a couple of these interface functions by describing how the kernel resolves a path to get a data structure needed for most functions in the VFS.

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