Disk Space Manager

Task: manage the location of pages on disk (page = block)

Provides commands for:

• allocating and deallocating a page

on disk

• reading and writing pages.

Why not use the operating system

for this task?

• Portability

• Limited size of address space

• May need to span several

disk devices.

Platters

Spindle

Disk head

Sector

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