January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
13h 22m
English
Content preview from UNIX Filesystems: Evolution, Design, and Implementation
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Who Should Read This Book?
Rather than reach for the usual group of suspects—kernel engineers and operating system hobbyists—this book is written in such a way that anyone who has an interest in filesystem technology, regardless of whether they understand operating system internals or not, can read the book to gain an understanding of file and filesystem principles, operating system internals, and filesystem implementations.
This book should appeal to anyone interested in UNIX, its history, and the standards that UNIX adheres to. Anyone involved in the storage industry should also benefit from the material presented here.
Because the book has a practical edge, the material should be applicable for undergraduate degree-level computer science courses. As well as a number of examples throughout the text, which are applicable to nearly all versions of UNIX, the chapter covering Linux filesystems provides a number of areas where students can experiment.