In this project, you will design and implement a simplifies UNIX like file system in C or C++. This project does not use MIPS or SPIM, so it is completely independent of your other homework assignments.
Design a file system that uses i-nodes blocks and data blocks to keep your files. Your file system will use, a i-node structure like Fig 4.33 of your textbook (single link, double link and triple link i-nodes). Your directory, i-node block, data block structure will be similar to Fig 4.34 of the textbook. Your file attributes will include size, last modification date and time, and name of the file. No permissions or owner attributes will be kept. Write a design report that specifies the following
• Define your directory structure and directory entries;
• Define how you keep the free blocks and free i-nodes;
• Define your i-node structure
• Define your superblock that contains crucial information about the file system such as the block size, i-node positions, block positions, etc.
Your report should include the function names of your source code that handles the file system operations listed in the table of Part 3.
Part 2 Write a C/C++ program that creates an empty file system as a 1 MB Linux file. This file will include all the information about your file system including the i-nodes, data blocks, free blocks and i-nodes, directories, data, etc. The sample run of the program will be like
makeFileSystem 4 400 mySystem.dat
where 4 is the block size of the file system in KB for both data blocks and i-node blocks, and 400 is the number of free i-nodes for an empty file system. mySystem.dat is the Linux file that contains all the file system. When you
work on the file system, this file contains all the information for the file system. Note that the size of mySystem.dat will be exactly 1 MB all the time whether it contains any information or not. Part 3
You will write a program that performs file system operation on the file system. The program will work like following
where fileSystemOper is your program, fileSystem.data is the file system data file that you have created in Part 2. You will keep modifying the same fileSystem.data file for all your operations. Allowable operations and parameters for these operations are given below in the following table.
Operation Parameters Explanation Example list Path Lists the contents of the directory shown by path on the screen. fileSystemOper fileSystem.data list “/”
lists the contents of the root directory. The output will be like ls –l mkdir rmdir Path and dir name Makes or removes a directory fileSystemOper fileSystem.data mkdir
“/usr/ysa” makes a new directory under the directory “ysa” if possible. These two works exactly like mkdir and rmdir commands of Linux shell dumpe2fs None Gives information about the file system. fileSystemOper fileSystem.data dumpe2fs
works like simplified and modified Linux dumpe2fs command. It will list block count, i-node count, free block and i-nodes, number of files and directories, and block size. Different from regular dumpe2fs, this command lists all the occupied i-nodes, blocks and the file names for each of them. write Path and file name Creates and writes data to the file fileSystemOper fileSystem.data write “/usr/ysa/file” linuxFile
Creates a file named file under “/usr/ysa” in your file system, then copies the contents of the Linux file into the new file. This works very similar to Linux copy command. read Path and file name Reads data from the
Reads the file named file under “/usr/ysa” in your file system, then writes this data to the Linux file. This again works very similar to Linux copy command. del Path and file name Deletes file from the path fileSystemOper fileSystem.data del “/usr/ysa/file”
Deletes the file named file under “/usr/ysa” in your file system. This again works very similar to Linux del command. Operations below are bonus (20 points) ln Source and destination path and file names Hard linking between
Allows more than one filename to refer to the same
file
Linux ln command lnsym Source and destination path and file names Symbolic linking between 2 files fileSystemOper fileSystem.data lnsym “/usr/ysa/file1” “/usr/ysa/file2”
Linux ln-s command
fsck none Simplified File system check fileSystemOper fileSystem.data fsck
Just print the two table of Fig 4.27 of your textbook for both i-nodes and blocks Here is a sequence file system operation commands that you can use to test your file system. Suppose you have a file named linuxFile.data in your Linux current directory.
fileSystemOper fileSystem.data list “/” ; Should list 1 dir, 1 file fileSystemOper fileSystem.data del “/usr/ysa/file1” fileSystemOper fileSystem.data dumpe2fs
fileSystemOper fileSystem.data lnsym “/usr/file2” “/usr/symlinkedfile2” fileSystemOper fileSystem.data list “/usr" fileSystemOper fileSystem.data del “/usr/file2” fileSystemOper fileSystem.data list “/usr" ; Should see likedfile2 is there, symlinkedFile2 is there but.. fileSystemOper fileSystem.data write “/usr/symlinkedfile2” linuxFile.data ; Should print error!