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.

• File Systems
• Journaling FS
• FAT
• Fragmentation
• inode
• inode pointer structure
• Cylinder-Head-Sector
• Logical block addressing
• Disk scheduling