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-===== September 15, 2010 =====
+===== September 7, 2011 =====
 Start of classes.
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 The list of suggested topics will be posted in the course directory on Red in the file: /cs/course/4221/4221_topics
-===== October 29, 2010 =====
+COSC4221/5421 Test 1 will be held on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 19:00-22:00.
-COSC4221/5421 Test 1 will be held on Wednesday, November 3, 2010 19:00-22:00.
+COSC4221/5421 Test 2 will be held on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 19:00.
-Test 1 will include:
+It is possible that Test 1 and Test 2 may include true/false questions, questions that require short answers, questions that may require the drawing of diagrams, questions that require slightly longer answers, and other possible question formats.
-a) Material covered in the lectures from the beginning of the term up to and including the lecture on Wednesday October 27;
-b) Material in the files OSD.1.pdf, OSD.2.pdf, OSD.3.pdf, and slides 1-24 of OSD.4.pdf (up to and including the slide titled "In Memory VFS Objects and On Disk Objects"), in the course directory;
-c) Material in Chapter 10 and Chapter 11 of the book “Operating System Concepts”, 7th Ed;
-d) Material in Chapter 12 of the book “Understanding the Linux Kernel”, 3rd Edition related to the material in the slides listed in item b above.
-(Please make sure that you have the most up-to-date version of the slides in the above mentioned files, as some of the slides may have been updated since you last downloaded them.)
-It is possible that Test 1 may include true/false questions, questions that require short answers, questions that may require the drawing of diagrams, questions that require slightly longer answers, and other possible question formats.
-MAKE SURE YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND ALL THE MATERIAL IN THE SLIDES.
-ALSO NOTE THAT DRAWING THE SAME KIND OF DIAGRAMS AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE SLIDES, WILL BE AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF TEST 1. For example, if you are given a diagram similar to that on slide 9 of OSD4.pdf, “Example of a Small File System Tree in Unix”, then you should be able to draw the corresponding diagram on slide 10, “Internal Structure of Small File system Tree in Unix”, as well as the corresponding diagram on slide 24, “In Memory VFS Objects and On Disk Objects”.
-===== November 11, 2010 =====
-The CSE4221/5421 Midterm Test marks are posted in the course directory. To obtain your CSE4221/5421 Midterm Test mark, log in to your cs account on Red, then type in the following command:
-courseInfo 4221 2010-11 F
-===== December 7, 2010 =====
-COSC4221 Test 2 will be held on Wednesday, December 8, 2010 19:00.
-Test 2 will include:
-(a) Material covered in the lectures, with emphasis on material covered in the lectures since Test 1 and up to and including the lecture on Wednesday December 1;
-(b) Material in the slides 25-end of OSD.4.pdf, OSD.4.1.pdf, OSD.5.pdf in the course directory;
-(c) Material in Chapter 18 of the book “Understanding the Linux Kernel”, 3rd Edition.
-(Material in the slides 25-end of OSD.4 is also explained in Chapter 12 of the book, “Understanding the Linux Kernel”, 3rd Edition. Although there is no chapter in any book that covers all the material in the slides in OSD.5. However, reading Chapter 5, “Kernel Synchronization”, of the book, “Understanding the Linux Kernel”, 3rd Edition, may help understand some of the material on synchronization in the slides in OSD.5.)
-It is possible that Test 2 may include true/false questions, questions that require short answers, questions that require calculations, questions that may require the drawing of diagrams, questions that require writing short programs using pseudo C code similar to that used in the slides, questions that require slightly longer answers, and other possible question formats.
-MAKE SURE YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND ALL THE MATERIAL IN THE SLIDES. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALTHOUGH THE EMPHASIS OF TEST 2 WILL BE ON MATERIAL THAT HAS NOT BEEN TESTED SO FAR, THE MATERIAL IN TEST 2 MAY STILL DEPEND ON KNOWLEDGE OF PREVIOUS MATERIAL.
-Although you do not have to memorize all the different VFS or Ext2 fields and functions listed in the charts in the slides, however, you do need to know about fields or functions discussed in the lecture notes.
-ALSO NOTE THAT DRAWING THE SAME KIND OF DIAGRAMS AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE SLIDES, WILL BE AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF TEST 2.