Learning Resources
This generated surface maps a learner-facing curriculum unit to its canonical source routes.
Curriculum surface
- Open learner-facing unit
- Curriculum path:
content/curriculum/systems/semester-05-os-networking/module-04-file-systems-io/resources.md - App:
systems - Semester:
semester-05-os-networking - Module:
module-04-file-systems-io - Unit kind:
resource - Curation level:
module_curated
Learning objectives
- Explain Learning Resources as part of the full syscall-to-storage path rather than as an isolated filesystem fact.
- Reason about correctness, crash behavior, and performance tradeoffs that appear when Learning Resources is used in real programs.
- Use
operating-system-concepts,ostep,unix-network-programmingto connect the learner page to concrete APIs, on-disk structures, and I/O debugging evidence.
Prerequisites
- Comfort with processes, memory, and the syscall boundary from the earlier OS modules.
Source books
operating-system-conceptsostepunix-network-programming
Source routes
Operating System Concepts
- /books/operating-system-concepts/chapter-13-exercises via
OS Concepts: Consistency checking - /books/operating-system-concepts/chapter-14-exercises via
OS Concepts: Virtual file systems
Ostep
- /books/ostep/a-detailed-example via
OSTEP: A detailed example - /books/ostep/aside-forcingwritestodisk via
OSTEP: Aside - forcing writes to disk,OSTEP: Forcing writes to disk - /books/ostep/aside-optimizinglogwrites via
OSTEP: Aside - optimizing log writes - /books/ostep/b07-zfs-the-last-word-in-file-systems via
OSTEP: ZFS - /books/ostep/chapter-02-virtualizing-the-cpu via
OSTEP: Optimizing log writes - part 2 - /books/ostep/chapter-22-cache-management via
OSTEP: Cache management (paging) - /books/ostep/chapter-36-system-architecture via
OSTEP: Case study - a simple IDE disk driver,OSTEP: Fitting into the OS - the device driver,OSTEP: More efficient data movement with DMA,OSTEP: System architecture,OSTEP: The canonical protocol - /books/ostep/chapter-37-the-interface via
OSTEP: A simple disk drive,OSTEP: Disk scheduling,OSTEP: I/O time - doing the math,OSTEP: The interface - /books/ostep/chapter-39-files-and-directories via
OSTEP: Aside - the inode data structure,OSTEP: Files and directories,OSTEP: Hard links,OSTEP: Making directories,OSTEP: Reading and writing but not sequentially,OSTEP: Reading and writing files,OSTEP: Symbolic links - /books/ostep/chapter-40-the-way-to-think via
OSTEP: Access paths - reading and writing,OSTEP: Caching and buffering,OSTEP: Directory organization,OSTEP: Overall organization,OSTEP: The way to think - /books/ostep/chapter-41-the-problem-poor-performance via
OSTEP: Measuring file locality,OSTEP: Organizing structure - the cylinder group,OSTEP: Policies - how to allocate files and directories,OSTEP: The large file exception,OSTEP: The problem - poor performance - /books/ostep/chapter-42-a-detailed-example via
OSTEP: Solution 1 - the file system checker,OSTEP: Solution 3 - other approaches - /books/ostep/chapter-43-writing-to-disk-sequentially via
OSTEP: A new problem - garbage collection,OSTEP: Solution through indirection - the inode map,OSTEP: Writing sequentially and effectively,OSTEP: Writing to disk sequentially - /books/ostep/chapter-44-disk-failure-modes via
OSTEP: Detecting corruption - the checksum,OSTEP: Disk failure modes,OSTEP: Misdirected writes - /books/ostep/data-journaling via
OSTEP: Data journaling - /books/ostep/h-10-journaling-file-system via
OSTEP: Journaling file system - /books/ostep/h-4-copy-on-write-mappings via
OSTEP: Copy-on-write mappings
Unix Network Programming
- /books/unix-network-programming via
UNP: Advanced polling (part 1),UNP: Advanced polling (part 2),UNP: I/O models,UNP: pselect function,UNP: select (part 2),UNP: select (part 3),UNP: select function (part 1)
Supporting curriculum routes
No supporting curriculum routes linked yet.
External enrichment
- man 2 open (
official_docs_companion) - Grounds file-descriptor and file-opening concepts in the system call interface itself. - man 2 read (
official_docs_companion) - Useful when learners need to connect filesystem ideas to concrete blocking, partial-read, and error behavior.
AI companion modes
- Explain simply
- Diagnose my confusion
- Revision mode
- Connect forward / backward
Source-of-truth note
This teaching unit is learner-facing guidance assembled from multiple canonical book routes. Use the listed source books as the primary conceptual spine for Learning Resources, and treat outside material as supporting enrichment only.