Unix File System Paper Presentation

Unix File System
A file's purpose is to ease access to nonvolatile storage through a simple, commonly understood interface. Using a file system for access to all system resources is intrinsic to the UNIX programming paradigm. A File is a very important abstraction in the computing programming field. Files serve for storing data permanently; they offer a few simple but powerful primitives to the programmers. The file system is the way the operating system organizes, manages and maintains the file hierarchy into mass-storage devices, normally hard disks. Every modern operating system supports several different, disparate, file systems. Download Presentation