Vnode architecture

• What if the kernel doesn't have a generic FS structure?
  • How to access NTFS, VFAT, UFS, etc?
• Vnode layer is an abstraction of a generic file system object
  • Compare to inodes, which define the object
• Real file system has direct mapping of vnodes to internal nodes
  • inodes in UFS
  • handles for NFS

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