0 votes 0 votes Some systems provide file sharing by maintaining a single copy of a file. Other systems maintain several copies, one for each of the users sharing the file. Discuss the relative merits of each approach Operating System operating-system galvin descriptive file-system + – ajaysoni1924 asked Mar 22, 2019 ajaysoni1924 498 views answer comment Share Follow See 1 comment See all 1 1 comment reply Gurdeep Saini commented Mar 22, 2019 reply Follow Share With a single copy, several concurrent updates to a file may result in user obtaining incorrect information, and the file being left in an incorrect state. With multiple copies, there is storage waste and the various copies may not be consistent with respect to each other 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.