The VFS (Virtual File System) in Linux Kernel V2.4
A Play In 5 Acts

Table of contents

• Act I - The Linux Kernel's VFS - exposition
• Act II - Relations Of The VFS With The Rest Of The System - the plot thickens...
  • VFS And The System - Static Relations
  • VFS And The System - Dynamic Relations
• Act III - Internal Components Of The VFS - the naked souls...
  • About Caches
  • The Dcache
  • The Inode Cache
  • The File Object
• Act IV - The VFS Sources - there's a birdhouse in your code...
• Act V - Example VFS Operations - three paths to your soul...
  • VFS Operations - Path To Inode Translation
  • VFS Operations - File Open
    • Actually Opening The File
    • VFS Create
  • VFS Operations - File Read
    • Reading Via The Page Cache
• References

Originally written by guy keren