VFS(9)

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✨ NAME ✨

vfs — kernel interface to file systems

okay so bestie, welcome to the VFS(9) page from the Kernel Developer's Manual 💖. This is the main-character manual for vfs, and it’s literally the kernel interface to file systems. That’s the whole vibe. No cap.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The virtual file system, vfs, is the kernel interface to file systems. Periodt. The interface specifies the calls for the kernel to access file systems. It also specifies the core functionality that a file system must provide to the kernel. So yes, it’s giving both “how the kernel talks to file systems” and “what a file system has to bring to the group chat” energy 🫶.

The focus of vfs activity is the vnode, and that whole situation is discussed in vnode(9). Obsessed. File system operations such as mounting and syncing are discussed in vfsops(9). Go read those if you want the full lore, iykyk 🌸.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

🫶 cute little sign-off: this footer energy is Debian, September 22, 2001, VFS(9) — mwah 💋

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