Operating Systems 2019W Lecture 8

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The video for the lecture given on January 28, 2019 is now available.

Notes

In Class

Lecture 8
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* mmap
  - file mmap
  - anonymous mmap
* filesystems
  - mounting
  - creating
  - types
  - loopback


VFS: virtual filesystem
 - abstraction between filesystem-related system calls and filesytem operations

Filesystem in a file
 - system treats bytes of a file like a "disk"
 - can then put a filesystem in it