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Part 1: Diving into the Virtual Filesystem

This part offers a detailed introduction to the virtual filesystem (VFS) layer and the actual filesystems underneath it. You will learn about VFS, its major data structures, the extended filesystem family, and the major concepts associated with the different filesystems in Linux.

This part contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1, Where It All Starts From – The Virtual Filesystem
Chapter 2, Explaining the Data Structures in a VFS
Chapter 3, Exploring the Actual Filesystems Under the VFS

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