file system

To keep track of free blocks in a file system, one of the two approaches is generally used - using bitmaps (bit vectors) or using linked lists. Consider that the linked list approa...

Consider a linear list based implementation in a file system. Each directory is a list of nodes, where each node contains the file name along with the file metadata, such as the li...

A FAT (file allocation table) based file system is being used and the total overhead of each entry in the FAT is $$4$$ bytes in size. Given a $$100\,\, \times \,\,{10^6}$$ bytes di...

A file system with 300 G Byte disk uses a file descriptor with 8 direct block addresses, 1 indirect block address and 1 doubly indirect block address. The size of each disk block i...

The data blocks of a very large file in the Unix file system are allocated using

Using a larger block size in a fixed block size file system leads to

In the index allocation scheme of blocks to a file, the maximum possible size of the file depends on

The root directory of a disk should be placed: