CS 5580 - Operating Systems II

• Students will develop the ability to design and implement a file system in user space
• Students will develop the ability to design and implement a simulation system to evaluate the performance of different memory management strategies
• Students will develop the ability to design and implement dynamic memory allocation library functions.
• Students will gain a detailed understanding of frame allocation
• Students will gain a detailed understanding of paging and swapping
• Students will gain a detailed understanding of segmentation
• Students will gain a detailed understanding of various page relacement algorithms
• Students will gain a general understanding of file access methods.
• Students will gain a general understanding of methods for allocating disk space.
• Students will gain a general understanding of the NFS file system
• Students will gain a general understanding of the UNIX fast file system
• Students will gain a general understanding of the Windows file system
• Students will gain a general understanding of the advantages, disadvantages, and tradeoffs of distributed file systems
• Students will gain a general understanding of the virtual file system (VFS) concept
• Students will gain a general understanding of various file system concepts: the file, mounting, ownership, permissions
• Students will gain a thorough understanding of a particular distributed file system
• Students will gain a thorough understanding of one particular file system
• Students will gain a thorough understanding of the principle of virtual memory
• Students will gain an understanding of the implications of the security features in memory management and file system implementations