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Disk Management is a system utility for managing hard disks and the volumes, or partitions, that they contain.
Disk Management enables you to perform most disk-related tasks without shutting down the system or interrupting users; most configuration changes take effect immediately.
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Stable-Storage Implementation
Tertiary Storage Devices
Operating System Issues
Performance Issues
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This is the twelfth set of slightly updated slides from a Perl programming course that I held some years ago.
I want to share it with everyone looking for intransitive Perl-knowledge.
A table of content for all presentations can be found at i-can.eu.
The source code for the examples and the presentations in ODP format are on https://github.com/kberov/PerlProgrammingCourse
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Keep index in memory for fast determination of location of data to be operated on (consider UPC code plus record of data about that item)
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3. Overview: 1/4
qA file system has on-disk and in-memory
information.
qA disk may contain the following for
implementing a file system on it:
vA boot control block per volume
vA partition control block per volume
vA directory structure per file system
vA file control block per file
qIn-memory information include
vAn in-memory partition table
vAn in-memory directory structure
vThe system-wide open-file table
vThe per-process open-file table
4. Overview: 2/4
a typical file control block FCB qA FCB, file control
block, contains the
file permission details of a file.
file date qIn Unix, a FCB is
file owner, group, ACL
called an i-node.
file size
file data blocks
5. Overview: 3/4 3: read the directory
4: update FCB and directory
kernel memory disk memory
user program
open(filename) directory structure
directory structure
1: create a new file
FCB
5: a file descriptor/file handle
is returned
2: allocate a new FCB
6. Overview: 4/4
index
kernel memory disk memory
user program per-process
open-file table
Data blocks
read(index) system-wide
open-file table
FCB
7. Directory Implementation
qA File directory is usually implemented as a
linked-list or a tree (e.g., B-tree), a hash table
with chaining, or the combination of both.
qThe problem with the linked-list approach is
the poor performance in searching for a file.
Directory search is a very frequently
performed operation.
qThe hash table approach speeds up search;
however, we must deal with the problem of
collisions. Thus, chaining is necessary.
8. Directory Entries: 1/2
qA directory is simply a file!
qA directory entry may be very simple like the
one used by MS-DOS. Or, it may be quite
complex like the Unix i-node.
extended MS-DOS directory entry used in Windows 98
10. File Allocation Methods
qThere are three typical file space allocation
methods:
vContiguous Allocation
vLinked Allocation
vIndexed Allocation
11. Contiguous Allocation: 1/3
qWith the contiguous allocation method, a user
must indicate the file size before creating the file.
qThen, the operating system searches the disk to
find contiguous disk blocks for the file.
qThe directory entry is easy. It contains the initial
disk address of this file and the number of disk
blocks.
qTherefore, if the initial address is b and the
number of blocks is n, the file will occupy blocks b,
b+1, b+2, …, b+n-1.
12. Contiguous Allocation: 2/3
directory
Since blocks are allocated
contiguously, external
fragmentation may occur.
Thus, compaction may be
needed.
13. Contiguous Allocation: 3/3
qContiguous allocation is easy to implement.
qIts disadvantages are
vIt can be considered as a form of dynamic
memory allocation, and external fragmentation
may occur and compaction may be needed.
vIt is difficult to estimate the file size. The size of
a file may grow at run time and may be larger
than the specified number of allocated blocks.
In this case, the OS must move the blocks in
order to provide mode space. In some systems,
this is simply an error.
14. Linked Allocation: 1/3
qWith the linked allocation approach, disk
blocks of a file are chained together with a
linked-list.
qThe directory entry of a file contains a pointer
to the first block and a pointer to the last block.
qTo create a file, we create a new directory entry
and the pointers are initialized to nil.
qWhen a write occurs, a new disk block is
allocated and chained to the end of the list.
15. Linked Allocation: 2/3
directory
28 Last Block
qFile blocks are chained into a
linked-list.
qThe directory entry has pointers
to the first and last file blocks.
qAppend is difficult to do without
the last pointer.
16. Linked Allocation: 3/3
qAdvantages:
vFile size does not have to be specified.
vNo external fragmentation.
qDisadvantages:
vIt does sequential access efficiently and is not
for direct access
vEach block contains a pointer, wasting space
vBlocks scatter everywhere and a large number
of disk seeks may be necessary
vReliability: what if a pointer is lost or damaged?
17. File Allocation Table (FAT)
FAT
0 q This is a variation of the
linked allocation by
pulling all pointers into a
217 618 table, the file allocation
directory table (FAT).
test q Large no. of disk seeks.
339 end-of-file
q Can do direct access.
q FAT needs space.
217 q The left diagram shows
618 339 file test has its first
block at 217, followed by
618, 339 (end of file).
no. of blocks-1 q What if FAT is damaged?
We all know it well!
18. Indexed Allocation: 1/4
qEach file has an index block that is an array of
disk block addresses.
qThe i-th entry in the index block points to the i-th
block of the file.
qA file’s directory entry contains a pointer to its
index. Hence, the index block of an indexed
allocation plays the same role as the page table.
qIndex allocation supports both sequential and
direct access without external fragmentation.
20. Indexed Allocation: 3/4
qThe indexed allocation suffers from wasted space.
The index block may not be fully used (i.e., internal
fragmentation).
qThe number of entries of an index table determines
the size of a file. To overcome this problem, we can
vHave multiple index blocks and chain them into
a linked-list
vHave multiple index blocks, but make them a
tree just like the indexed access method
vA combination of both
21. Indexed Allocation: 4/4
i-node
10 direct blocks
256 entries per index table.
What is the maximum size of a file?
22. Free Space Management
qHow do we keep track free blocks on a disk?
qA free-list is maintained. When a new block is
requested, we search this list to find one.
qThe following are commonly used techniques:
vBit Vector
vLinked List
vLinked List + Grouping
vLinked List+Address+Count
23. Bit Vector
qEach block is represented by a bit in a table. Thus,
if there are n disk blocks, the table has n bits.
qIf a block is free, its corresponding bit is 1.
qWhen a block is needed, the table is searched. If a 1
bit is found in position k, block k is free.
qIf the disk capacity is small, the whole bit vector can
be stored in memory. For a large disk, this bit
vector will consume too much memory.
qWe could group a few blocks into a cluster and
allocate clusters. This saves space and may cause
internal fragmentation.
qAnother possibility is the use of a summary table.
24. Linked List
qLike the linked allocation method, free blocks can
be chained into a linked list.
qWhen a free block is needed, the first in the chain is
allocated.
qHowever, this method has the same disadvantages
of the linked allocation method.
qWe can use a FAT for the disk and chain the free
block pointers together. Keep in mind that the
FAT may be very large and consume space if it is
stored in memory.
25. Grouping
qThe first free block contains the addresses of n
other free blocks.
qFor each group, the first n-1 blocks are actually
free and the last (i.e., n-th) block contains the
addresses of the next group.
qIn this way, we can quickly locate free blocks.
3 8 50 3 6
(3 & 8 are free)
8
12
20
50
(6 & 12 are free) 6 12 20
26. Address + Counting
qWe can make the list short with the following trick:
vBlocks are often allocated and freed in groups
vWe can store the address of the first free block
and the number of the following n free blocks.
free block list
5
3
disk