Introduction to File System Implementation
Explore the fundamentals of file system implementation by examining the Very Simple File System, a simplified UNIX-like system. Understand on-disk data structures, file access methods, and the core policies that guide modern file systems through practical case studies.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
In this chapter, we introduce a simple file system implementation, known as vsfs (the Very Simple File System). This file system is a simplified version of a typical UNIX file system and thus serves to introduce some of the basic on-disk structures, access methods, and various policies that you will find in many file systems today.
The file system is pure software. Unlike our development of ...