Weekly Edition
Return to the Development page
| |||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||
Put virtual filesystems to work (IBM developerWorks)
Cameron Laird
talks about virtual filesystems on IBM's developerWorks.
"The idea behind a VFS is simple: it represents as a filesystem something that is not a filesystem. Filesystem here means a "conventional Linux-like filesystem": a tree or hierarchy of directly accessible directories and (ordinary) files. The concept should intrigue anyone working with Linux, of course, simply because so much of Linux's own character comes from the representation of devices, tables, and other objects within the UNIX filesystem. UNIX is founded on the principle that everything, or at least plenty of things, are files; VFS generalizes this to view as much as possible as a filesystem."
(Log in to post comments)
|
|
||||||||||||