On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > ah, now i see. just to clarify, does *all* filesystem access > (including NTFS) go thru the VFS? or are there some filesystems that > differ sufficiently from the VFS model that they provide their own ... > access implementations? (not sure that's the best way to phrase it, > but i'm sure you know what i mean.) XFS had a translation layer (perhaps still do) to interface their irix code to the kernel. I dont know if they bypassed VFS or if they did their own thing. But they had serious corruption issues for a very long time. And still have design flaws which prevent me from using XFS in production (the inability to fsck a read-only mounted fs being one of them). -Dan