CS 4580 - 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 replacement 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 trade-offs 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.