Lecture 21

Spring 2012, Siena College

Lecture 21: More Filesystems and I/O
Date: Thursday, April 12, 2012

Agenda

Announcements
- Colloquium talk tomorrow at 4 in RB 340: former Siena CS faculty member Scott Diehl, now at Google
Lecture assignment 20 recap
Journaling filesystems
RAID
Hierarchical storage
Virtual file system layer
Input/Output

Due at the start of class, Tuesday, April 17.

Please submit answers to these questions either as a hard copy (typeset or handwritten are OK) or by email to jteresco AT siena.edu by the start of class. Please use a clear subject line when submitting by email (e.g., CS 330 Lecture Assignment 21, Joe Student). We will discuss these questions at the start of class, so no late submissions are accepted.

The readings for next class are SG&G Chapter 12.

Submit a one-page summary of the important ideas behind the Unix Buffer Cache, based on the supplemental readings from the handout from Bach (1986).

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