File systems

The Kernel requires a filesystem to start up. In unix terms this means it's /sbin/init or /linuxrc. It's also important that the OS is able to read and write all common file systems.

FUSE

User-space implementation of a filesystem API.

• Requires kernel module that is standard in 2.6 kernels
• Good examples of custom implementation
  • See fs.c

NTFS

libntfs uses FUSE to impelment a file system wrapper for NTFS

• see Virtual file systems