October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
9h 28m
English
Content preview from Mastering Linux Kernel Development
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Operations
While data structures make up elementary constituents of a filesystem design, the operations possible on those data structures to render file access and manipulation operations makes the core feature set. The number of operations and type of functionalities supported are filesystem implementation specific. Following is a generic description of a few common operations that most filesystems provide.