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Chapter 10 of 'Operating System Concepts' discusses mass-storage systems, focusing on the physical structure, performance characteristics, and management of secondary storage devices like magnetic disks. It covers topics such as disk scheduling, RAID structure, and the impact of disk attachment methods. The chapter aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of how mass-storage systems operate and their significance in modern computing.

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Chapter 10 of 'Operating System Concepts' discusses mass-storage systems, focusing on the physical structure, performance characteristics, and management of secondary storage devices like magnetic disks. It covers topics such as disk scheduling, RAID structure, and the impact of disk attachment methods. The chapter aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of how mass-storage systems operate and their significance in modern computing.

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Chapter 10: Mass-Storage

Systems

Operating System Concepts – 9th Edition Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2013
Chapter 10: Mass-Storage Systems
● Overview of Mass Storage Structure
● Disk Structure
● Disk Attachment
● Disk Scheduling
● Disk Management
● Swap-Space Management
● RAID Structure
● Stable-Storage Implementation

Operating System Concepts – 9th Edition 10.2 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2013
Objectives

● To describe the physical structure of secondary storage devices


and its effects on the uses of the devices
● To explain the performance characteristics of mass-storage
devices
● To evaluate disk scheduling algorithms
● To discuss operating-system services provided for mass
storage, including RAID

Operating System Concepts – 9th Edition 10.3 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2013
Overview of Mass Storage Structure
● Magnetic disks provide bulk of secondary storage of modern computers
● Drives rotate at 60 to 250 times per second
● Transfer rate is rate at which data flow between drive and computer
● Positioning time (random-access time) is time to move disk arm to
desired cylinder (seek time) and time for desired sector to rotate
under the disk head (rotational latency)
● Head crash results from disk head making contact with the disk
surface -- That’s bad
● Disks can be removable
● Drive attached to computer via I/O bus
● Busses vary, including EIDE, ATA, SATA, USB, Fibre Channel,
SCSI, SAS, Firewire
● Host controller in computer uses bus to talk to disk controller built
into drive or storage array

Operating System Concepts – 9th Edition 10.4 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2013
Moving-head Disk Mechanism

Operating System Concepts – 9th Edition 10.5 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2013

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