CS4513 Mid-Term Exam Topic Outline
Here is an outline of the topics that might be on the mid-term exam:
- File Systems
- Concepts
- User-level
- Implementation
- File Descriptors
- Directories
- Storing files (aliases)
- Disk management
- Partitions
- Linux Specifics
- Win2000 Specifics
- Flo00
- Issues with modern server file systems
- B+ Trees (basics)
- Extents
- Managing large disks, large files, large directories ...
- Misc enhancments
- Support for sparse files
- Dynamic inode allocation
- Reducing internal fragmentation
- HML02
- Introduction
- Network (and NFS) Appliances
- WAFL goals
- User-level view of Snapshots
- WAFL
- File descriptors
- Meta-data
- Snapshots
- Consistency points
- Performance
- Distributed Computer Systems Overview
- Goals
- Software
- Multicomputer Operating Systems
- Network Operating Systems
- Middleware
- Client-Server Architectures
- The Web (as a distributed System)
- Document model (brief)
- Communication (HTTP)
- HTTP 1.0 Multiple connections
- HTTP 1.1 Multiple connections
- Pipelined requests
- HTTP messages
- Processes
- Client-side processing
- Server-side processing
- Web-Proxies
- Naming (brief)
- Web Caching
- Issues
- Dynamic Web pages
- Large documents
- Coherency
- Cooperative Caches
- CDNs
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