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None of the disk-scheduling disciplines, except FCFS, is truly fair (starvation may occur).

i. Explain why this assertion is true.

ii. Describe a way to modify algorithms such as SCAN to ensure fairness.

iii. Explain why fairness is an important goal in a time-sharing system.

iv. Give three or more examples of circumstances in which it is important that the operating system be unfair in serving 1/O requests.

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