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🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-27

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Q1. What structure does the VFS layer use to uniquely represent a file across a network?

🔹 A. vnode
🔹 B. inode
🔹 C. superblock
🔹 D. directory entry

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: A

Q2. A process calls open(\/mnt/nfs/file.txt\). Which VFS step determines that the request must be handled by the remote NFS protocol?

🔹 A. VFS calls the NFS protocol directly
🔹 B. VFS reads the superblock
🔹 C. VFS consults the file descriptor table
🔹 D. VFS checks the inode type

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: D

Q3. How does the VFS layer enable transparent access to both local and remote file systems?

🔹 A. By converting all operations to network packets
🔹 B. By storing all files in a single database
🔹 C. By providing a uniform vnode interface that dispatches to appropriate handlers
🔹 D. By requiring applications to know the file system type

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: C

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