《OPERATING SYSTEMS教学课件》ch4.pptVIP

* Journaling File Systems (2) Operations required to remove a file in UNIX Remove the file from its directory. Release the i-node to the pool of free i-nodes. Return all the disk blocks to the pool of free disk blocks. The journaling file system Write a log entry listing the three actions to be completed, and write the log entry to disk Only after the log entry has been written to disk, the various operations can begin After the operations complete successfully, the log entry is erased If the system crashes, upon recovery the file system can check the log to see if any operations were pending.