The Venus kernel interface

Peter J. Braam

1. Introduction

2. Servicing Coda filesystem calls

3. The message layer

• 3.1 Implementation details

4. The interface at the call level

• 4.1 Data structures shared by the kernel and Venus
• 4.2 The pioctl interface
• 4.3 root
• 4.4 lookup
• 4.5 getattr
• 4.6 setattr
• 4.7 access
• 4.8 create
• 4.9 mkdir
• 4.10 link
• 4.11 symlink
• 4.12 remove
• 4.13 rmdir
• 4.14 readlink
• 4.15 open
• 4.16 close
• 4.17 ioctl
• 4.18 rename
• 4.19 readdir
• 4.20 vget
• 4.21 fsync
• 4.22 inactive
• 4.23 rdwr
• 4.24 odymount
• 4.25 ody_lookup
• 4.26 ody_expand
• 4.27 prefetch
• 4.28 signal

5. The minicache and downcalls

• 5.1 INVALIDATE
• 5.2 FLUSH
• 5.3 PURGEUSER
• 5.4 ZAPFILE
• 5.5 ZAPDIR
• 5.6 ZAPVNODE
• 5.7 PURGEFID
• 5.8 REPLACE

6. Initialization and cleanup

• 6.1 Requirements

7. Inode numbers