Re: filesystems

2000-11-22 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > you do not mount a VFS filesystem. VFS is not a filesystem. VFS is a > Virtual Filesystem Switch, i.e. a set of concepts, philosophy, data > structures and functions which together make writing new filesystems easy. > The name is derived from the SVR4

Re: filesystems

2000-11-22 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Joe Harrington wrote: > Does a typical Linux system or Mandrake boot using the ext2 filesystem? Do > all filesystems have or use commands such as stat, read, write and chmod. I > am trying to figure out without looking through the code how a VFS > filesystem works. I am assum