FAAS (see Function As A Service)

Failure isolation, 1043

Fair-share scheduling, 167–168

False sharing, distributed shared memory, 573

FastMutex, Win31 call, 940

FAT (see File Allocation Table)

FAT-16 file system, 262, 325–317

FAT-32 file system, 261–262, 325

Fault (exception), 347

FCFS (see First-Come First-Served disk sched.)

Fcntl system call, 773

Fiber, Windows, 931

Fidelity, hypervisor, 482

FIFO (see First-In First-Out page replacement alg.)

File, 42–45, 261–272

• ASCII, 265

• block special, 264

• character special, 264

• implementation, 280–285

File access, 266–267

File access table, 989

File allocation table, 283–284

File attribute, 267–268

File compression, Windows, 998–999

File descriptor, 44, 271, 771

File encryption, NT file system, 1000

File extension, 262

File handle, 785

File management system calls, 57–58

File mapping, Windows, 889

File metadata, 267

File naming, 261–263

File operation, 269–270

File structure, 263–264

File system, 259–331

• /proc, 782–783

• example, 324–330

• exFAT, 262

• ext2, 293, 776–781

• ext3, 293, 781

• ext4, 292, 297, 321, 781–782

• FAT-16, 262, 325–327

• FAT-32, 261–262, 325

• flash, 293–298

• fragmentation, 320–321

• journaling, 292–293, 781

• Linux, 766–789

• log-structured, 290–292

• MINIX 3, 766, 776

• MS-DOS, 324–327

• network, 299, 783–789

• NFS, 783–789

• NTFS, 262, 989–1000

• proc, 782–783

• resilient, 262, 989

• stateless, 786

• UNIX V7, 327–330

• Windows, 989–1000

File system block size, 302–303

File system cache, 315–318

File system calls, Linux, 770–774

File system dump, 308–312

File system performance, caching, 315–318

• compression, 321

• deduplication, 322

• disk defragmentation, 320–321

• read ahead, 318–319

• reducing arm motion, 319–320

File system read ahead, 318–319

File system security, 322–323

File system structure, Windows, 991–994

File type, 264–266

File-based middleware, 590–594

File-sharing semantics, 593–594

File-system backup, 307–312

File-system consistency, 312–315

File-system filter driver, 910

File-system implementation, 278–301

File-system layout, 278–280

File-system management and optimization, 301–323

File-system performance, 315–320

Filter, Linux, 717

Filter driver, Windows, 910, 987

Fine-grained randomization, 682–683

Finite-state machine, 116

Firmware, 911

First fit memory management algorithm, 190

First-come, first-served disk scheduling, 160, 376

First-in, first-out page replacement algorithm, 210

Flag, 716

Flash memory, 27

Flash translation layer, 295

Flash-based file system, 293–298

Flashing boot ROM, 911

Floppy disk, 370–371

Flush & reload attack, 673

FlushFileBuffer Win32 call, 979

Fly-by mode, 346

Folder, 42, 272

Font, 416–417

Fork system call, 54, 544, 724, 726, 727, 731, 733, 734, 735, 753, 808, 831, 832, 930, 935, 936, 1052, 1059, 1069

Formal models of secure systems, 628–637

Formal security model, 628–637

Format-string attack, 658–661

Formatting, disk, 372–375

FORTRAN, 9–10, 1051–1052

Forward patch, Windows, 1033

Fragmentation

• external, 243

• internal, 226

Free -block management, 303–306

Free memory, 188–192

FreeBSD, 1, 4, 18, 37, 703, 710

Fsck program, 312

Fstat system call, 773

Fsync system call, 757

FTL (see Flash Translation Layer)

Full virtualization, 484

Function as a service, 502

Fundamentals of security, 607–618

Futex, 135–136

Fuzzer, 615, 1026