CS4513 Exam One Topic Outline

Here is an outline of the topics that might be on the first exam:

• File Systems
  • Concepts
  • User-level
  • Implementation
    • File Descriptors
    • Directories
    • Storing files (aliases)
  • Disk management
    • Blocks
  • Partitions
  • Linux Specifics
  • Win2000 Specifics
• Distributed Computer Systems Overview
  • Goals
    • Transparency
    • Scalability
  • Software
    • Multicomputer Operating Systems
      • Distributed Shared Memory
    • Network Operating Systems
    • Middleware
  • Client-Server
    • Implementation Levels
    • Architectures

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