January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
13h 22m
English
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Index
/dev/fd, 263
/proc filesystem, 249
contents, 251
implementation, 250
ps example, 253
ps implementation, 250
ptrace system call, 249
Solaris version of, 250
tracing and debugging, 253
/system/processor, 262
/usr/group, 11
absolute pathname, 30
pathname resolution, 116
Access Control Lists (ACLs), 10
address space
SVR4 VM abstractions, 143
AdvFS filesystem, 324
AFS, 303
architecture, 303
cache manager, 304
cells, 303
client callback, 305
client-side caching, 304
design goals, 303
future of, 305
volume cloning, 304
volume location database, 304
filesystem architecture, 161
ioctls, 45
pageable kernel, 161
virtual memory management, 162
Alliant, 238
Andrew File System
See AFS
Apollo Computing, 237
asynchronous I/O, 54
development of, 10
AT&T Information Systems, 6
autofs filesystem, 300
automounter, 298
autofs filesystem, 300
problems, 300
backup, 265
block-level incremental, 279
incremental, 280
BCPL, 4
bdevsw array, 112
bdflush daemon, 135
Berkeley Fast File System, 7
See Also UFS
Berkeley Software Design Incorporated (BSDI), 8
BESYS, 3
block device files, 32
block devices, 90
block map, 125
bmap function
in BSD, 157
research UNIX, 119
VxFS storage checkpoints, 276
Bourne, Steve, 5
1BSD, 7
386/BSD, 8
3BSD and UFS, 213
4.2BSD DNLC, 140
4.3BSD file caching, 157
4.3BSD file I/O, 156
4.3BSD Reno,
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