Lecture Operating systems: A concept-based approach: Chapter 14 - Dhananjay M. Dhamdhere
Lecture Operating systems: A concept-based approach: Chapter 14 - Dhananjay M. Dhamdhere
Chapter 14 - Implementations of file operations. This chapter discusses the physical organization used in file systems. It starts with an overview of I/O devices and their characteristics, and discusses different RAID organizations that provide high reliability, fast access, and high data transfer rates. The arrangements used to implement device-level I/O are then discussed, including use of buffers and caches to speed up I/O operations and use of disk scheduling policies to improve throughput o