Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Joe Harrington" <> | Subject | filesystems | Date | Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:26:22 -0800 |
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Does a typical Linux system or Mandrake boot using the ext2 filesystem? Do all filesystems have or use commands such as stat, read, write and chmod. I am trying to figure out without looking through the code how a VFS filesystem works. I am assuming that it does not use the major minor system, for faster access to data? On my system I have:
ext2 msdos nodev proc
Yes I did a man filesystems, man virtual filesystems, and manVFS. What does the nodev stand for? I have seen other systems containing filesystems such as:
ext2 minix msdos vfat nodev proc nodev nfs iso9660 ufs nodev autofs nodev devpts
Basically, do you mount a VFS filesystem, does it keep pages in RAM longer than other filesystems. How would a VFS filesystem handle system calls such as "stat" or "open"? I am just looking for something that can easily help me visualize the VFS process.
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