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

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