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Linux System Administrator's Guide 0.3
Lars Wirzenius
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network services (sockets) TCP/IP protocol drivers Ethernet card driver Hardware Kernel Normal programs Kernel User level programs Figure 2.1: Some of the more important parts of the Linux kernel. supports: the kernel contains a virtual filesystem (VFS) that contains all the operations for a filesystem, and a filesystem driver for each supported filesystem. When some entity tries to use a filesystem, the request goes via the VFS, which routes the request to the proper filesystem driver. 2.3 Major services in a UNIX system This section describes some of the more important UNIX services, but without much detail. They are described more thorougly in later chapters. 12 Chapter 2. Overview of a Linux System 2.3.1 init The single most important service in a UNIX system is provided by init. init is started as the first process of every UNIX system, as the last thing the kernel does when it boots. When init starts, it continues the boot process by doing various startup chores (checking and m...
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