October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
704 pages
18h 44m
English
The vfs layer provides an administrative interface into the file system to support commands like mount and umount in a file-system-independent manner. The interface achieves independence by means of a virtual file system (vfs) object. The vfs object represents an encapsulation of a file system's state and a set of methods for each of the file system administrative interfaces. Each file system type provides its own implementation of the object. Figure 13.3 illustrates the vfs object.

| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| vfs_mount() | Mounts a file system on the ... |
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