Lectures and Readings

• 1. Introduction (ppt, pdf) (1/3, 1/5, 1/8)
• 2. Architectural Support for OS (ppt, pdf) (1/10, 1/12)
• 3. OS Components and Structure (ppt, pdf) (1/12, 1/17)
• 4. Processes (ppt, pdf) (1/19)
• 5. Threads (ppt, pdf) (1/22)
• Scheduler Activations paper (pdf) (optional)
• 6. Synchronization (ppt, pdf) (1/24)
• 7. Semaphores and Monitors (ppt, pdf) (1/26)
• 8. Deadlock (ppt, pdf) (1/29)
• 9. Scheduling (ppt, pdf) (1/29, 1/31)
• Web server scheduling (graphs presented in class are from [ITC 2003] (pdf))
• 10. Memory Management (ppt, pdf) (2/2, 2/5)
• 11. Virtual Memory, Page Faults, Demand Paging, and Page Replacement (ppt, pdf) (2/12, 2/14)
• 12. Page Table Management, TLBs, and Other Pragmatics (ppt, pdf) (2/16, 2/21)
• 13. Secondary Storage (ppt, pdf) (2/21)
• 14. File Systems (ppt, pdf) (2/23, 2/26)
• 15. BSD UNIX Fast File System (ppt, pdf) (2/26)
• 16. Journaling File Systems (ppt, pdf) (2/28)
• Journaling File Systems (pdf)
• "Journaling Versus Soft Updates: Asynchronous Meta-Data Protection in File Systems" (pdf) (optional)
• 17. Berkeley Log-Structured File System + File System Summary (ppt, pdf) (2/28)
• LFS paper (pdf) (optional)
• 18. RAID (ppt, pdf)
• Interactive illustration of RAID
• 19. Networking (ppt, pdf)
• 20. Remote Procedure Call (RPC) (ppt, pdf)
• 21. Distributed Systems (ppt, pdf)
• TerraServer Bricks paper (pdf)
• Grapevine paper (pdf)
• 22. Distributed File Systems (ppt, pdf)
• 23. Authentication / Authorization / Security (ppt, pdf)
• "Is it harmful to discuss security vulnerabilties?" (Matt Blaze on physical locks)
• "Reflections on Trusting Trust" (Ken Thompson on (not) trusting compilers)
• 24. Course Review (ppt, pdf)