Chapter 8 Files and File Systems

   

This chapter looks at the structures both in memory and on disk that make up the HP-UX file systems. HP-UX supports a number of file system layouts. This chapter looks in detail at the UNIX File System layout and the Virtual File System layer, which allows the kernel to work easily with the various file system types. It also explains various caching systems and how the dynamic buffer cache is used to complete disk transfers.

Although the Veritas File System (VxFS) is part of HP-UX, its internals are proprietary to Veritas and are not covered in depth. The merits of a journal file system and extent-based disk space allocation, however, are discussed in this chapter.



HP-UX 11i Internals
HP-UX 11i Internals
ISBN: 0130328618
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 167

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