CS560 -- Operating Systems

Jim Plank --- Spring 2006

What We've Done in Class

January 12, 2006

We went over general information. Then we wrote A program to reinforce fork()/exec()/pipe() etc.

All online lecture notes

• The p1.c program that we go over in class the first day.
• Threads 1
• Threads 2
• Threads 3
• Thread lecture 4
• The Dining Philosophers
• KThreads #1: Using KThreads.
• KThreads #2: The KThreads Implementation.
• Pseudo-threads lecture #1 and #2 (These are no longer used)
• Pseudo-thread Lecture #3 (No longer used)
• The Scheduling Simulator
• Scheduling in Unix
• Examples of paging
• Topics in the disk/storage lecture:
  • Log-structured file systems
  • Compression
  • RAID
  • Reed-Solomon / Tornado Codes

Papers

• Slides for the Erasure Code Tutorial
• The Ruemmler/Wilkes Paper:

      .article        rw:94:idm
      author          C. Ruemmler and J. Wilkes
      title           An Introduction to Disk Drive Modeling
      journal         IEEE Computer
      volume          27
      number          3
      pages           17--29
      month           March
      year            1994