The Way to Think
This lesson discusses two aspects to build a mental model of a file system.
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To think about file systems, we usually suggest thinking about two different aspects of them. If you understand both of these aspects, you probably understand how the file system basically works.
Data structures
The first is the data structures of the file system. In other words, what types of on-disk structures are utilized by the file system to organize its data and metadata? The first file systems we’ll see (including vsfs below) employ simple structures, ...