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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 5 Question 26 (Page No. 431)

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Yes, It may be still useful because interleaving the sectors will give the programs time to process if most of the files are stored in logically successive sectors. But still, it depends on the type of programs run and their behavior.

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