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Tag: vfs

What’s the difference between a VFS and an NFS?

This might be a dumb question, but I’m struggling to find resources that clearly explain how a VFS is different from an NFS. Can they both be used for the same purpose? Bonus question: Can you watch a VFS with inotify like you can an NFS? Answer “NFS” is a network filesystem that’s been around for decades. Wikipedia has you

Is rename() atomic?

I am not being able to check this via experiments and could not gather it from the man pages as well. Say I have two processes, one moving(rename) file1 from directory1 to directory2. Say the other process running concurrently copies the contents of directory1 and directory2 to another location. Is it possible that the copy happens in such a way

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