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(More customer reviews)I am very surprised that this book is largely get overlooked by Unix society. I read this book for over 2 years, I'm still frequently revisit it. The beautities of the book are 1. The information is up-to-date, a lot of information is summarized from latest Usenix proceedings 2. Topics involved are moderate to advanced, assuming you have enough basic knowledge on Unix Internals, such as those from BACH's book. So it focused on SMP, threaded kernel, virtual file system/journal FS. VM/Fs integration. It fillin the gap for those reader who need to know the progress of current Unixes of current Unixes since mid 80's 3. Solutions and comparisions. The author detailed different solutions on flavour of Unixes, including BSD, SVR4, Solaris (although derived from SVR4), OSF, and the legend MACH. This is the gem of the book, it outlined pro and con of each solution that brodened user's mind. 4. Well balanced contents. The author keep well balance between mechanism and implementaion detail, so that it is detail enough for reader to grasp the essence algorithm but not embroil into topic-irrevalant mess that may distract reader's attention.
This is a fasinating Unix internal book on market that can take the reader into the Unixes forest, in the meantime, keep readers a clear view about the forest evolution and landscape.
The book is not for Unix beginner.
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This book offers an exceptionally up-to-date, in-depth, and broad-based exploration of the latest advances in UNIX-based operating systems. Focusing on the design and implementation of the operating system itself — not on the applications and tools that run on it -- this book compares and analyzes the alternatives offered by several important UNIX variants, and covers several advanced subjects, such as multi-processors and threads. Compares several important UNIX variants—highlighting the issues and alternative solutions for various operating system components. Describes advanced technologies such as multiprocessor and multithreaded systems, log- structured file systems, and modern memory architecture.
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