quartz/content/notes/05-filesystems.md

title	tags
05-filesystems	lecture cosc301

access control models

backups

devices for filesystems

• device naming conventions under dev explanation

UNIX file system

• tree
• descriptions
• implementation

struture of directory

soft vs hard links

• hard link must always poin to data - to delete a file with hard links you must also delete all the hard links
• soft links can point to a non-existing file

advanced file attrs

special files

journaling

• logs changes to journal before writing
• impact on performance requires data be written twice
• question why not just write a description of the change

creating FS demo