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 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 ...

Adding details to the design of a file system, and then implementing it in detail. The file system uses a variant of the scheme used by UNIX in that it allows for a hierarchical file directory and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...