File

Linux Kernel modes for file I/O: buffered and direct. (See also: kswapd and Jens Axboe)

See also

• file, File system, directory, touch, mkdir, ls, ln truncate, fallocate, split, stat, inode, File descriptor, superblock, block size (blockdev), fuser, lsof, scrub, chattr, ulimit (nofiles), cp, mv, file (command), mkfifo, chmod
• File systems: ext4, XFS, ZFS, btrfs, wipefs, findfs, HDFS, overlay, aufs, virt-filesystems, Windows: (FAT, NTFS, ReFS), GPFS, squashfs, Ecryptfs, Encfs, FUSE, VMFS, Comparison of distributed file systems, Userspace filesystem, Resize filesystem size