CS2106
Introduction to Operating Systems
Pre-class Activity 11: Disk Performance
Nov 2nd
FInd out the make and model of the hard disks you owned and used, both internal and external. Go to the manufacturer websites and find out the specification — what is the average rotational time, seek time, and transfer time to read a block of data of your disks? Which component is dominating the disk access time?
Week 13: Changes to Lab and Tutorial Schedules
Nov 2nd
As Monday, 7 November 2011, is a public holiday, we loose the opportunity to enjoy the lab and tutorial sessions on Monday.
There is no tutorial sessions for next week (including the Thursday sessions). Instead, the answers to the questions will be posted and discussed online.
There will be four additional lab sessions on Wednesday, 9 November, 2011.
- 12noon – 1pm
- 1pm – 2pm
- 2pm – 3pm
- 5pm – 6pm
Students from Monday’s lab group can come to any of the lab sessions. Lab TAs will be available to help.
Lecture 11: File Systems
Nov 2nd
4 November, 2011
We focus on file systems in this week’s lecture. Will talk a little bit about disk performances as well.
Having a hardcopy of slides during lecture would be helpful. Be prepare to take notes during lecture.
Download Slides: PDF
Reading:
- Section 4.3, 4.4
- Section 5.4.3
- Section 10.6.3
Related Wikipedia entries are listed below. These are for students who are keen to go beyond what is covered in CS2106. Read the articles with a critical mind since Wikipedia is editable by anyone.
Lab 8: Pipes
Oct 29th
Here is your Lab 8.
Lab 8 is a graded exercise. You have two weeks to complete. Submit your solution to the IVLE workbin before Sunday, 13 November 2011, 10:00pm.
Note that this lab is to be completed on SunFire, to reduce the dependencies on Linux machines in the OS lab.
Tutorial 9
Oct 29th
31 October – 4 November 2011
Here are the questions for discussion during Tutorial 9.
PCs in OS Lab Fixed
Oct 28th
A router hung. It is fixed now. Please try and report if there are still issues.
The deadline for Lab 7 has been extended until Tuesday, 1 November 2011, 10:00pm.
Students who did not managed to work on the lab last Thursday are welcome to attend the lab sessions on this coming Monday. If you have time table clashes and not able to attend the class on Monday, please feel free to contact your lab TAs if you need any help with the lab.
PCs in OS Lab Broken
Oct 27th
The PCs in the OS lab are unusable now. IT support is looking into it.
The deadline for Lab 7 is extended. Once we know more about when the PCs can be fixed, I will announce the new deadline.
Lecture 10: Memory Management III and Introduction to File Systems
Oct 27th
28 October, 2011
This lecture cleans up the remaining topics on memory management and introduces system calls related to file management
Having a hardcopy of slides during lecture would be helpful. Be prepare to take notes during lecture.
Download Slides: PDF
Reading:
- Section 3.5.3, 3.5.6, 3.5.7
- Section 3.7 (excluding 3.7.1, 3.7.2)
- Section 10.4.2
- Section 4.1, 4.2
- Section 3.7 (excluding 3.7.1, 3.7.2)
Related Wikipedia entries are listed below. These are for students who are keen to go beyond what is covered in CS2106. Read the articles with a critical mind since Wikipedia is editable by anyone.
Screencast 9
Oct 26th
Here is the screencast from Lecture 9.
Since I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Quicktime is producing screen recording twice the size produced by the previous version. So this one is half GB. Been wanting to reencode this to reduce the size, but no time. Decided to post the large version anyway to avoid further delay.
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