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date="2023-02-03"
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author="spanskiduh"
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title="VFS"
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description="click to read about VFS"
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# VFS
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## Superblock
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Representation of mounted filesystem.
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properties:
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- device, where the fs is located
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- fs type
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- block size
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- flags
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- root inode pointer (!)
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- low level operations on the filesystem
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## Inode
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File of any type. Represents everything, except the filename!
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properties:
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- includes pointers to blocks with data!!!
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- owner, group, perms info
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- inode number, file size.
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- date & time of most recent access
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## Dentry
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It maps file names to to inodes
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- filename
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- inode pointer that represents file
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- pointer to parent dirent
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- counter of usages
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