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<h2 class="section"> 4.7 Virtual File System (<small>VFS</small>) </h2>
<p><em>Written by Andrew Zabolotny, <a href="mailto:bit@eltech.ru">bit@eltech.ru</a>.</em>
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<p>Since many even basic concepts in file systems on different operating systems
often differ, you often should take care to use the right path separators on
the right platform, search on different “drives”, “mounts” and so on for
required files. This library achieves the goal of making the file system
appear “the same” on various operating systems, and adds many bonus
features such as archive support and overlaid directories.
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<p>Each “directory” on the <small>VFS</small> <em>virtual volume</em> is mapped to some
<em>real-world</em> directory or <small>ZIP</small> archive. Additionally, you can make
one “virtual directory” map to several real-world directories (and/or
<small>ZIP</small> files) at one time, thus covering such cases as having files either
on compact disc (<small>CD</small>) or hard disk (depending upon the user's choice),
distributing data file updates (thus overriding some files on write-only
media) and so on.
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<p>The Virtual File System is driven by a configuration file.
See section <a href="VFS-Configuration-File.html#0">Configuration File (<tt>‘vfs.cfg’</tt>)</a>.
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