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Week 3, Additional Reading

GUID Partition Table (GPT)
https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.10/05_GUID_Partition_Table_Format.html

The Security War in File Systems: An Empirical Study from A Vulnerability-centric Perspective
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3606020

And to dive a bit deeper into #ext4 and FFS.

Understanding ext4 Disk Layout:
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/understanding-ext4-disk-layout-part-1

ext4 Data Structures and Algorithms:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/ext4/

A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A-Brief-History-of-the-BSD-Fast-Filesystem.pdf