CHAPTER 11FILE-SYSTEM INTERFACE 《操作系统概念》英文版教材.pptVIP

CHAPTER 11FILE-SYSTEM INTERFACE File Concept File Access Directory Structure File System Mounting File Sharing File Protection FILE CONCEPT Introduction File attributes File types File structures File operations File concept What is a file A file is named collection of related information that is recorded on secondary storage. Content types: Data numeric alphabetic alphanumeric binary Program source programs Object forms File concept: Attributes File attributes Name: The symbolic file name in human-readable form Identifier: to identify the file within the file system (Internal) Type: to support different types. Location: the location on the secondary storage device. Size: the current size (and/or its maximum size) Protection: who can do reading, writing, executing, and so on. Time, date, and user identification: This information may be kept for creation, last modification, and usage monitoring. Typically, the directory entry consists of the file’s name and its unique identifier. The identifier in turn locates the other file attributes. One of the file attributes is the location of file. File concept: Types If an OS recognizes the type of a file, it can then operate on the file in reasonable ways. Some common file types (See the next slide) The TOPS-20 OS: If the user tries to execute an object program whose source file has been modified (or edited) since the object file was produced, the source file will be recompiled automatically. The Apple Macintosh OS: Each file has a type and also has a creator attribute containing the name of the program that created it. The Linux: File types are just hints. How to determine a file type on the Linux. File concept: Operations Create: to allocate the file space and allocate the directory entry Read/Write/Seek: to find the directory entry and keep a read/write pointer or seek to a new position. Delete: to find the directory entry and release all file space and erase the directory entry Truncate: to find the directory