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(16-10-2017, 12:46 AM)venam Wrote:
(15-10-2017, 06:23 PM)josuah Wrote: If I understood it, there is quite a lot between the application (top), and the VFS (just under) that is not described on this diagram, (file table, with locks...).
The goal of the podcast was to go from the bottom layer to the top so that anyone could grossly grasp this kind of schema.
It seems like it's not doing that bad of a job at that.

Yes, what you're mentioning are kernel data structures.
This Linux Storage Stack Diagram focuses on storage and what you're mentioning is not really part of it.
There are more diagrams here:
[Image: fileio1.png]
[Image: vfs_relations_static.png]
[Image: linux-vfs.png]

Diagrams... Everywhere...

Thanks for opening thte knowledge tap. That is clear now.


Messages In This Thread
Data Storage On Unix - by venam - 15-10-2017, 12:50 PM
RE: Data Storage On Unix - by venam - 15-10-2017, 01:11 PM
RE: Data Storage On Unix - by josuah - 15-10-2017, 06:23 PM
RE: Data Storage On Unix - by venam - 16-10-2017, 12:46 AM
RE: Data Storage On Unix - by budRich - 16-10-2017, 09:48 PM
RE: Data Storage On Unix - by venam - 19-10-2017, 02:52 AM
RE: Data Storage On Unix - by venam - 21-10-2017, 08:58 AM
RE: Data Storage On Unix - by josuah - 23-10-2017, 03:01 AM
RE: Data Storage On Unix - by venam - 23-10-2017, 04:17 AM
RE: Data Storage On Unix - by Mrat - 05-03-2018, 10:00 PM