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Operating Systems, Fall 2006, Homework 9
This homework will be covered in practise session on Thursday 16.11.2006 (week 46).
The exercises are based on chapters 11 and 12.
- RAID
- Problem 11.13 from text book [Stal05, p. 526] [Stal01, p. 515].
- Which RAID level would be best for performance? How should one organize the data to maximize performance?
- Which RAID level would be best for reliability? How should one organize the data to maximize reliability?
- How do RAID 4 and RAID 5 differ in performance and reliability?
- Problem 12.6 from text book [Stal05, p. 577] [Stal01, p. 562]
What are the biggest differences between Linux and W2K I/O systems as compared to basic techniques given in Ch 11. How do they differ from each other?
- I/O interrupt handling?
- device drivers?
- plug-and-play?
- raid?
- file cache?
- Problems 11.10 and 11.11 from text book [Stal05, p. 525] [Stal01, p. 514-515]
Mistakes in the old version! The problem referenced in problem 11.10 is 11.9 (not 11.7).
Likewise the problems 11.9 refers to 11.8 and 11.8 refers to 11.7.