Courses/Computer Science/CPSC 457.W2012/Lecture Notes/Filesystems

= File Systems =

In this session, we will consider what a file system is and what its role is as a data storage and namespace management infrastructure.

We will look at how it supports indexing file structure, using the Unix File System and the ext2/3/4 file systems as examples.

Reading

 * MOS, Chapter 4.3: File System Implementation
 * MOS, Chapter 4.5: Example File Systems
 * MOS, Chapter 10.6: The Linux File System
 * (optional) ULK, Chapter 1: SS: An Overview of the Unix Filesystem (pp 12---19)