An Object-oriented Approach Towards a General Model of File Systems
Author: Peter W. Madany
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 58
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbstract: "File systems are essential and highly visible components of operating systems. File system models determine the construction and usage of file systems. Currently there are a few common file system models; these models are closely tied to specific programming languages. Though these models contain some data storage and manipulation abstractions, they are neither general nor easily extensible. To characterize file systems properly, a model must be simple, general, effective, and extensible. In this paper I propose such a file system model and use an object-oriented approach to build and describe it. The object-oriented approach is chosen to exploit the techniques of data encapsulation, data abstraction, inheritance, and polymorphism.