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4 - B.Tech - CS3603 - Distributed Operating System - Unit 4

The document discusses distributed file systems (DFS) and remote file access. It covers characteristics of DFS like fault tolerance, scalability, and heterogeneity. DFS allow files to be accessed without containing location information. Caching in remote file access reduces network traffic by retaining recently accessed disk blocks, improving performance. State information that is maintained for file access includes opened files and clients, file descriptors, and file position pointers. The document asks multiple choice questions about file system components, file access methods, advantages of caching, examples of state information, and DFS characteristics.

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4 - B.Tech - CS3603 - Distributed Operating System - Unit 4

The document discusses distributed file systems (DFS) and remote file access. It covers characteristics of DFS like fault tolerance, scalability, and heterogeneity. DFS allow files to be accessed without containing location information. Caching in remote file access reduces network traffic by retaining recently accessed disk blocks, improving performance. State information that is maintained for file access includes opened files and clients, file descriptors, and file position pointers. The document asks multiple choice questions about file system components, file access methods, advantages of caching, examples of state information, and DFS characteristics.

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MFT

(1) What are the different ways in which clients and servers are dispersed across machines?
a) Servers may not run on dedicated machines
b) Servers and clients can be on same machines
c) Distribution cannot be interposed between a OS and the file system
d) OS cannot be distributed with the file system a part of that distribution

(2) What are not the characteristics of a DFS?


a) login transparency and access transparency
b) Files need not contain information about their physical location
c) No Multiplicity of users
d) No Multiplicity if files

(3) What are characteristic of a DFS?


a) Fault tolerance
b) Scalability
c) Heterogeneity of the system
d) Upgradation

(4) What are the different ways file accesses take place?
a) sequential access
b) direct access
c) indexed sequential access
d) all of the mentioned

(5) Which is not a major component of a file system?


a) Directory service
b) Authorization service
c) Shadow service
d) System service

(6) What are the different ways mounting of the file system?
a) boot mounting
b) auto mounting
c) explicit mounting
d) all of the mentioned
(7) What is the advantage of caching in remote file access?
a) Reduced network traffic by retaining recently accessed disk blocks
b) Faster network access
c) Copies of data creates backup automatically
d) None of the mentioned

(8) What is networked virtual memory?


a) Caching
b) Segmentation
c) RAM disk
d) None of the mentioned

(9) What are the examples of state information?


a) opened files and their clients
b) file descriptors and file handles
c) current file position pointers
d) all of the mentioned

(10) Which is not an example of state information?


a) Mounting information
b) Description of HDD space
c) Session keys
d) Lock status
LONG QUESTION

(11) Explain the File System Architecture.

(12) Discuss the Sun NFS

(13) Describe the forward and backward recovery methods.

(14) Define about DFS implementation in details.

(15) Explain about page and object based distributed shared memory.

(16) Define consistency models.

(17) Define the architecture of distributed shared memory.

(18) Define distributed scheduling.

(19) Explain FCFS in detail.

(20) Explain Recatrancy.

(21) Explain scheduling algorithm.

(22) Explain difference between paging and segmentation?

(23) Explain thrashing in O.S.

(24) Explain Semaphore in O.S. why is it used?

(25 )Expalin Kernel and white its main functions.

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