cs341 Lecture Notes
Spring 2002
Week 10, Monday

For today you should have:

1) prepared for the exam -- good luck!

2) read Section 13.5 and the reading notes


Topics for today:

1) the exam


For next time you should:

1) finish the no-starve readers-writers problem

2) finish the bus problem if you are not satisfied with
   the solution you wrote on the exam

3) skim the fast file system paper, just enough to
   answer the following questions


Fast File System for UNIX
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1) What is the primary contribution of this paper?








2) What is the metric the authors use to compare their
   file system implementation to previous implementations?







Skim the section and subsection headings so you understand
the organization of the paper.

We will focus on the performance enhancements (Sections 3 and 4)
and skip the functional enhancements (Section 5).