Disk scheduling exercise #

File systems #

The file system is an abstraction of the collection of disk blocks.
Requirements on data #

Files #

File names #

- inode = index node

Interface to file system #

Directories #

- requires unique filenames

- requires unique pathnames

- this allows multiple users to work on the same file (groups)
- recall “acyclic” means the graph does not contain a cycle

Directory operations #
