Operating System Practice Test 8

1. When an entire committed transaction is completed, ___________

2. In linked allocation _____________

3. ____________ writes occur in the order in which the disk subsystem receives them, and the writes are not buffered.

4. Device drivers are implemented to interface ____________

5. There is no __________ with linked allocation.

6. A machine in Network file system (NFS) can be ________

7. In indexed allocation _____________

8. FAT stands for _____________

9. A server crash and recovery will __________ to a client.

10. If too little space is allocated to a file _____________

11. Metadata includes _____________

12. Disks are segmented into one or more partitions, each containing a file system or ______

13. What is the real disadvantage of a linear list of directory entries?

14. A process _____ lower the priority of another process if both are owned by the same owner.

15. When in contiguous allocation the space cannot be extended easily?

16. The machine containing the files is the _______ and the machine wanting to access the files is the ______

17. A _________ directory is mounted over a directory of a _______ file system.

18. A mount operation includes the _____________

19. Many systems recognize three classifications of users in connection with each file (to condense the access control list).

20. Some directory information is kept in main memory or cache to ___________