Veritas™ File System 5.0.1 Programmer's Reference Guide

Veritas File System

software developer’s kit

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About the software developer’s kit

■ File System software developer’s kit features

■ Software developer’s kit packages

■ Required libraries and header files

■ Compiling environment

About the software developer’s kit

Veritas File System (VxFS) Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) provides developers

with the information necessary to use the application programming interfaces

(APIs) to modify and tune various features and components of the Veritas File

System. These APIs are provided with the VxFS Software Developer’s Kit.

Most of the APIs covered in this document are available in VxFS 4.0 and subsequent

releases.

About Veritas File System I/O references APIs that are available in the current

VxFS release, subsequent releases, and several previous releases.

File System software developer’s kit features

This section provides an overview of the VxFS features that are accessible with

the SDK.

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