The Linux file system is composed of three layers: The logical file system is the interface between user applications and the file system. The virtual file system provides a standard interface for ...

Most of the components, software code structures, operating system connections, data services and interconnectivity channels that exist in an application could (and usually should) also exist in a ...

An operating system (OS) is software that manages computer resources, controls program execution, and provides a user interface ...

An open source file system can bring huge scalability, parallel file system capability and advanced features compared to those bundled with commercial operating systems.

For example, traversing a file system tree from the root node to the file of interest requires jumping from an inode to a directory file (potentially multi-indexed) to the file location.