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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!engr.orst.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!hp-cv!hp-pcd!hplabs!hplntx!hpscit.sc.hp.com!cupnews0.cup.hp.com!bsukadev From: bsukadev@rxsvr2.cup.hp.com (B. Sukadev (Contr)) Subject: Looking for book on UNIX Internals Sender: news@cupnews0.cup.hp.com (News Admin) Message-ID: <Cw8oyu.1tB@cup.hp.com> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 20:30:29 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: rxsvr2.cup.hp.com Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0.8] Lines: 18 I'm looking for a good book discussing in depth on the internals of UNIX operating system - basically an updated version of 'The UNIX operating system by Maurice J Bach' I'm specifically interested in the following areas * Buffer cache implementation, covering variable size buffers, multiple free lists etc. * Virtual File systems implementation. * UNIX File system structure (ufs) discussing stuff like disk layout (cylinder groups), redundant super blocks etc. Any help in finding such a book(s) will be greatly appreciated. Suk