FS / inode / vnode refresher

Tue Jun 15 20:00:02 PDT 2004

There's been a few article about fs's in the Linux Journal
and Linux Magazine.

Here's a tutorial I found on the web:

http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=Tutorial&pageid=95

Michael Cheselka
--
When in the Potemkin Wired be a Potemkin Lain.

Quoting "Roy S. Rapoport" <rsr at inorganic.org>:

> I've been a sysadmin for about 12 years now, and have a pretty decent
> understanding of most things sysadmin.  I've got enough of an
> understanding
> of how the UNIX filesystem works to explain, say, how files are
> stored, in
> general, what inodes are, and what the diff between symlinks and hard
> links
> is.
>
> I need to bone up on the lower-level details for an interview next
> week.
> Having already done this on the network side (TCP/IP Illustrated is
> your
> friend), I'm looking for refresher material on filesystem
> organization,
> hopefully at a similar level (in other words, I'm looking for
> something
> deeper than "a directory contains a bunch of files" and something a
> little
> more relevant and high-level than "here's the code to directly
> manipulate
> inodes").  At the same time, I have to shamefully admit that I'm
> trying to
> figure out what the difference between an inode and a vnode is
> (remember,
> there are no stupid questions, only stupid people).
>
> Any pointers?
>
> -roy
>