7.06.2013

Journaling

Journaling avoids the time-consuming check that is automatically performed on a filesystem when it is abruptly unmounted for instance, as a consequence of a system cras...

System Calls

             Operating systems offer processes running in User Mode a set of interfaces to interact with hardware devices such as the CPU, disks,and printers. Putting an extra layer between the application and the hardware has several advantages. First, it makes programming easier by freeing users from studying low-level programming characteristics...