Disks from the Perspective of a File System

作者：McKusick Marshall Kirk^*

来源：Communications of the ACM, 2012, 55(11): 53-55.

DOI：10.1145/2366316.2366330

MOST APPLICATIONS do not deal with disks directly, instead storing their data in files in a file system, which protects us from those scoundrel disks. After all, a key task of the file system is to ensure the system can always be recovered to a consistent state after an unplanned system crash (for example, a power failure).

• 出版日期2012-11