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Database design. Database design is the organization of data according to a database model. The designer determines what data must be stored and how the data elements interrelate. With this information, they can begin to fit the data to the database model. [ 1] A database management system manages the data accordingly.
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard ( FHS) is a reference describing the conventions used for the layout of Unix-like systems. It has been made popular by its use in Linux distributions, but it is used by other Unix-like systems as well. [ 1] It is maintained by the Linux Foundation. The latest version is 3.0, released on 3 June 2015.
Copy-on-write. Copy-on-write ( COW ), sometimes referred to as implicit sharing[ 1] or shadowing, [ 2] is a resource-management technique used in computer programming to efficiently implement a "duplicate" or "copy" operation on modifiable resources [ 3] (most commonly memory pages, storage sectors, files, and data structures).
A page table is a data structure used by a virtual memory system in a computer to store mappings between virtual addresses and physical addresses. Virtual addresses are used by the program executed by the accessing process, while physical addresses are used by the hardware, or more specifically, by the random-access memory (RAM) subsystem.
Unix ( / ˈjuːnɪks / ⓘ, YOO-niks; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 [ 1] at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
File descriptors for a single process, file table and inode table. Note that multiple file descriptors can refer to the same file table entry (e.g., as a result of the dup system call [3]: 104 ) and that multiple file table entries can in turn refer to the same inode (if it has been opened multiple times; the table is still simplified because it represents inodes by file names, even though an ...
Relocation (computing) Relocation is the process of assigning load addresses for position-dependent code and data of a program and adjusting the code and data to reflect the assigned addresses. [ 1][ 2] Prior to the advent of multiprocess systems, and still in many embedded systems, the addresses for objects are absolute starting at a known ...
Database normalization is the process of structuring a relational database in accordance with a series of so-called normal forms in order to reduce data redundancy and improve data integrity. It was first proposed by British computer scientist Edgar F. Codd as part of his relational model . Normalization entails organizing the columns ...