Vfs

The Virtual Filesystem What is a Filesystem? Imagine a bare hard drive as a massive, empty warehouse. You can throw billions of bytes of data in there, but without a system, you will never find anything again. A filesystem is the specific set of rules, data structures, and “ledgers” (like the Inodes and Superblocks we discussed) used to organize, index, and retrieve that data. It dictates how large a file can be, how folders are nested, and how permissions are handled. ...