VFS
VFS
Superblock
Superblock is the container for high level metadata
inode
All objects are managed through index node(inode). It can be a file, symbol link or device
dentry
Directories are represented via the dentry node. At the root level / there is dentry node which is referenced in superblock
dcache
The dentry cache provides a lookup mechanism from pathname to dentry node. It exists only in RAM
file object
For each opened file a file object is created