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Basic File System Concepts

 

Every Linux filesystem implements a basic set of common concepts derivated from the Unix operating system []: files are represented by inodes, directories are simply files containing a list of entries and devices can be accessed by requesting I/O on special files.





Ross Biro
Mon May 22 09:14:56 PDT 1995