End-to-end Argument

Please read End-to-end argument. Check here.

Think about following questions:

• Use your own word to describe “end-to-end” argument.
• Give at lease three cases that are suitable to use this principle.
• Give at lease three cases that are NOT suitable to use this principle.
• [Discussion] Consider the design of the file system based on inode (as we learn from class and the lab ). Which part(s) of the design do you think can be removed? In another word, which part(s) of the design is(are) not flexible enough and should be implemented by the user? (Hint: don’t be limited by the FS API.)
• [Discussion] The same question, for the OS.

The deadline of your answer is 23:59, 2020-11-26. Please write your answer into a text file or PDF and upload it to ftp://public.sjtu.edu.cn/upload/cse/reading3/[your-student-id].txt, like 518021910000.txt

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