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29.Dd February 9, 2010
30.Dt VFS 9
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm VFS
34.Nd kernel interface to file systems
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36Calls used to set or query file systems for settings or information.
37.Pp
38File systems that do not implement a VFS operation should use the appropriate
39.Fa vfs_std
40function from
41.Pa src/sys/kern/vfs_default.c
42rather than implementing empty functions or casting to
43.Fa eopnotsupp .
44.Sh SEE ALSO
45.Xr VFS_CHECKEXP 9 ,
46.Xr VFS_FHTOVP 9 ,
47.Xr VFS_INIT 9 ,
48.Xr VFS_MOUNT 9 ,
49.Xr VFS_QUOTACTL 9 ,
50.Xr VFS_SET 9 ,
51.Xr VFS_STATFS 9 ,
52.Xr VFS_SYNC 9 ,
53.Xr VFS_UNMOUNT 9 ,
54.Xr VFS_VGET 9 ,
55.Xr vnode 9 ,
56.Xr VOP_VPTOFH 9
57.Sh AUTHORS
58This manual page was written by
59.An Doug Rabson .
60