CSCI 373.005 Computer System Administration — Files

Files — as seem by users

• Unix file system
  • Types of files (see find)
  • Protection of files
    • Traditional Mode bits (see chmod)
    • Not as ancient access control lists setacl)
• File System Basics — Apple Developer
• Windows local file systems

Files — as used by developers

• Unix file I/O model
• C standard I/O
• Reading and writing files in Python

File System — as managed by admins

• Filesystem Hierachy Standard of LSB (Linux Standard Base
• mounting files — fstab and mount

Filesystem — as programmed by kernel hackers

• Wikipedia on almost all file systems
• Linux kernel interface
• The New Hitchhiker’s Guide to Tru64’s AdvFS

Readings for 23 January

By next week, you need to be a semi-experienced user of the Shell. To do this you need to read (quickly) Part 1, “Learning the Shell” of The Linux command line: A Complete Introduction by William E. Shotts, Jr. This book can be read on-line from the library or downloaded from the author’s web site LinuxCommand.org. This is about 120 pages of book; however, you should be able to open it at the terminal and go through the commands pretty quickly. I would estimate about less than one minute per page.