14. File System Framework
From its inception, UNIX has been built around two fundamental entities: processes and files. In this chapter, we look at the implementation of files in Solaris and discuss the framework for file systems.
14.1 File System Framework
Solaris OS includes a framework, the virtual file system framework, under which multiple file system types are implemented. Earlier implementations of UNIX used a single file system type for all of the mounted file systems, typically, the UFS file system from BSD UNIX. The virtual file system framework was developed to allow Sun’s distributed computing file system (NFS) to coexist with the UFS file system in SunOS 2.0; it became a standard part of System V in SVR4 and Solaris OS. We can categorize ...
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