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notes 3.9 review Questions

1. What is a directory? Scrutinize whether we can consider a directory as a file or not.

2. Analyze the need of flash file system with example.
3. Make distinction between file system and file manager. Give examples.
4. Examine the factors that you think influence the ‘CWD’?
5. Make distinction between disk file system and flash file system. Give examples.
6. Red Hat Linux uses the User Private Group scheme, each user will be assigned to a default
group consisting only of the user. Enlighten the statement.
7. What do you see as the difference between File systems and Operating Systems?
8. Make distinction between Sequential Access and Direct Access with examples.

9. Examine the advantages of the hyerarchical architecture over a simple one-level indexing
one.
10. Most operating systems provide a file system, as a file system is an integral part of any
modern operating system. Comment.

answers: self assessment

1. flash 2. index 3. subdirectories 4. primary index
5. master file 6. NFS 7. disk file system 8. Journaling
9. home 10. Processed 11. Transaction
12. special-purpose database (DBMS) 13. hierarchical

14. /proc file 15. windowing
3.10 further readings

Books Andrew M. Lister, Fundamentals of Operating Systems, Published By Wiley
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating System, Published By Prentice Hall

Colin Ritchie, Operating Systems, Published By BPB Publications
Silberschatz Galvin, Operating System Concepts, Published By Addison sley

Online links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

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