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2. Background

There are many operating systems, and many new file systems have been proposed, but only a handful of file systems are in regular use. This section provides a brief history of the evolution of file systems in general and the vnode interface in particular, and attempts to explain why so few file systems are used in practice. To a large degree, the reasons overlap with the limitations that FiST is intended to remove.



 

Erez Zadok
1999-12-07