A single NFS write procedure ____________

• A. Can be atomic
• B. Is atomic
• C. Is non atomic
• D. None of the mentioned

The NFS protocol __________ concurrency control mechanisms.

• A. Provides
• B. Does not provide
• C. May provide
• D. None of the mentioned

_______________ in NFS involves the parsing of a path name into separate directory entries – or components.

• A. Path parse
• B. Path name parse
• C. Path name translation
• D. Path name parsing

For every pair of component and directory vnode after path name translation ____________

• A. A single nfs lookup call is used sequentially
• B. A single nfs lookup call is used beginning from the last component
• C. At least two nfs lookup calls per component are performed
• D. A separate nfs lookup call is performed

When a client has a cascading mount _______ server(s) is/are involved in a path name traversal.

• A. At least one
• B. More than one
• C. More than two
• D. More than three

A device driver can be thought of like a translator. Its input consists of _____ commands and output consists of _______ instructions.

• A. High level, low level
• B. Low level, high level
• C. Complex, simple
• D. Low level, complex

The file organization module knows about _____________

• A. Files
• B. Logical blocks of files
• C. Physical blocks of files
• D. All of the mentioned

Metadata includes _____________

• A. All of the file system structure
• B. Contents of files
• C. Both file system structure and contents of files
• D. None of the mentioned

For each file there exists a ___________ that contains information about the file, including ownership, permissions and location of the file contents.

• A. Metadata
• B. File control block
• C. Process control block
• D. All of the mentioned

For processes to request access to file contents, they need _____________

• A. To run a seperate program
• B. Special interrupts
• C. To implement the open and close system calls
• D. None of the mentioned