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)
  • Journaling
  • Disk management
  • Linux Specifics (ext3)
  • Windows Specifics (NTFS)
• HLM02
  • Introduction
    • Network (and NFS) Appliances
    • WAFL goals
  • User-level view of Snapshots
  • WAFL
    • File descriptors
    • Meta-data
    • Snapshots
    • Consistency points
  • Performance
• Distributed File Systems
  • Basic Principles
  • Network File System (NFS)
    • Architecture
    • Protocols
    • Caching
  • Andrew File System (AFS)
    • Architecture
    • Protocols
    • Caching
• Distributed Computer Systems Overview
  • Goals
    • Transparency
    • Scalability
  • Software
    • Multicomputer Operating Systems
    • Network Operating Systems
    • Middleware
  • Client-Server Architectures
• The Web (as a distributed System)
  • Document model
    • HTML
    • XML
    • Other types
  • Communication (HTTP)
  • Processes
    • Client-side processing
    • Server-side processing
      • Clusters
    • Web-Proxies
  • Naming
  • Caching
    • Issues
    • Coherency
    • Cooperative Caches
    • CDNs
• SAAF08
  • AJAX
    • Motivation
    • Basic workings
    • Motivation for study (versus Web 1.0)
  • Approach
    • Traces
    • Data gathering
    • Applications selected
  • Analysis
    • Connections
    • Sessions
    • Inter-request times

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