April 1996
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
19h 37m
English
book
The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System
by Marshall Kirk McKusick - Consultant, Keith Bostic - Berkeley Software Design, Inc., Michael J. Karels - Berkeley Software Design, Inc., John S. Quarterman - Texas Internet Consulting
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Chapter 8Local Filestores
This chapter describes the organization and management of data on storage media. 4.4BSD provides three different filestore managers: the traditional Berkeley Fast Filesystem (FFS), the recently added Log-Structured Filesystem (LFS), and the Memory-based Filesystem (MFS) that uses much of the FFS code base. The FFS filestore was designed on the assumption that buffer caches would be small and thus that files would need to be read often. It tries to place files likely to be accessed together in the same general location on the disk. It is described in Section 8.2. The LFS filestore was designed for fast machines with large buffer caches. It assumes that writing data to disk is the bottleneck, and it tries to avoid seeking ...
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