• THE FILE SYSTEM
• Filing System functions
• The Layered File System
• File Access Methods
• File Attributes
• File Directory Structures
• Directory Operations
• Links
• Access Control
  • Specifying permitted Users
• Consistency Semantics
• Disk Organisation
  • Block Linkage or Chaining
  • File Allocation Table (FAT)
  • Index Blocks
  • Criteria for choosing Disk Block Size
  • Management of free space
• Archiving and Recovery
• Disk File I/O
  • FileMan:
  • Information needed on open files
  • Multi-User Systems
• Implementing file sharing
• Scheduling of disk accesses
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