《现代操作系统教学课件》lecture-10-File systems.pptVIP

Goals for today Files and Directiories File System Implementation Review: the art of Abstraction Process is an abstraction of …? Virtual address space is an abstraction of …? Why abstract??! The basic requirements Requirements for long term information storage: Must store large amounts of data Information stored must survive the termination of the process using it, i.e, persistence! Multiple processes must be able to access the information concurrently Solution: Store information on disk or other external media in units called files. The file system is a part of operating system that mana