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Computer Science

intermediate

Filesystems and the I/O Path

A file has no name; the name is a directory entry pointing at an inode. This lesson follows the kernel's I/O path: the VFS abstraction over every filesystem, the page cache and its writeback thresholds, buffered versus direct I/O, what fsync actually promises and what it does after a failure, ext4 journaling modes, and how a write finally reaches flash.

12 steps·~18 min

Filesystems and the I/O Path

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