Summary: March 29, 2008 OS: Mass Storage Structure 1
Mass-Storage Structure
Chapter 12
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Objectives
Describe the physical structure of secondary and
tertiary storage devices and the resulting effects on the
uses of the devices
Explain the performance characteristics of mass-storage
devices
Discuss operating-system services provided for mass
storage, including RAID and HSM
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Chapter Outline
Overview of Mass Storage Structure
Disk Structure
Disk Attachment
Disk Scheduling
Disk Management
Swap-Space Management

Source: Adam, Salah - Department of Information and Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences