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OS Second term related comments

Some topics regarding second sessional as initiated by ankita
Synchronization
1. All Three basic solutions of synchronization.
2. Bakery Algo.
3. Semaphores- both counting and binary.
4. All Classical problems of synchronization.
5. Critical Regions and monitors.
6. Atomic transactions.
Disc Mgmt
1. All Disc scheduling Algos- remember calculations of distance and memory map.
2. All the latencies and terminology associated with disc working.
3. RAID.
4. Sector sparing and slipping for bad sectors management.
5. Swap space management.
Deadlocks
1. Deadlock conditions.
2. All prevention, avoidance, recovery techniques theory.
3. Do practice safety and resource request, and deadlock detection algos thoroughly with example.
4. How to combine the deadlock approaches.
Device Mgmt
Totally theoretical so nothing can be said about about any one topic.

This is just the my perception about the topics listed here, this is nowhere decrease or increase the importance of any topics which are not listed here, and i personally encourage all the students to read the entire syllabus thoroughly and study all topics very sincerely.
All the best to all.
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