In this project, It has been designed and implemented a simplifies UNIX like file system in C++. File system that uses i-nodes blocks and data blocks to keep your files and use, a i-node structure as ...

One of the questions that Unix users are sometimes reluctant to ask is how all the directory names — like /etc, /var and /usr/local — came about in the first place. Why did we adopt the particular ...

In the UNIX operating system, a file is a repository of raw or processed data stored as a stream of bytes (also known as characters). In UNIX, the data is encoded using ASCII, although systems such as ...

Abstract: We defeat two proposed Unix file-system race condition defense mechanisms. First, we attack the probabilistic defense mechanism of Tsafrir, et al., published at USENIX FAST 2008. We then ...

People who have had bad experiences on Windows disks that performed poorly after they had become very fragmented often wonder if they need to apply some kind of periodic analysis and defragmentation ...

There was an error while loading. Please reload this page. What is a file in Linux? What is file system in Linux? Where are all the configuration files? Where do I ...

Abstract: Advanced UNIX file systems differ substantially from traditional UNIX file systems with respect to their internal layout and data structures. This paper analyzes these differences and their ...