Chapter 7Local Filesystems
7.1 Hierarchical Filesystem Management
The operations defined for local filesystems are divided into two parts. Common to all local filesystems are hierarchical naming, locking, quotas, attribute management, and protection. These features, which are independent of how data are stored, are provided by the UFS code described in this chapter. The other part of the local filesystem is concerned with the organization and management of the data on the storage media. Storage is managed by the datastore filesystem operations described in Chapter 8.
The vnode operations defined for doing hierarchical filesystem operations are shown in Table 7.1. The most complex of these operations is that for doing a lookup. The filesystem-independent ...
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