Chapter 10. File System

hub: engineering

part of the series

File concept

1. File attributes
2. File operations
3. File types
4. File structure
5. Internal file structure

Access Methods

1. Sequential Access
2. Direct Access
3. Other access Methods

Directory structure

1. Storage structure
2. Directory overview
3. Single-Level Directory
4. Two-Level Directory
5. Acyclic Graph
6. General Graph

File-System Mounting

File Sharing

1. Multiple users
2. Remote file systems
   1. Client-Server models
   2. Distributed information systems
   3. Failure modes
3. Consistency semantics
   1. UNIX semantics
   2. Session semantics
   3. Immutable-shared-files semantics

Protection

1. Types of access
2. Access control
3. Other approaches