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GO Classes DPP | GATE CS, DA | DBMS | File System vs DBMS
A company maintains employee information using ordinary operating-system files. Several application programs directly depend on the physical layout of these files.The com...
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GO Classes DPP | GATE CS | Operating System | Free Space Management
Which of the following data structures can be used by a file system to manage free disk blocks?Bitmap Inode Free-block linked list File Allocation Table, FAT I and II onl...
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UGC NET CSE | December 2025 | Part 2 | Question: 30
What is a superblock object represents in virtual file system of Linux OSan open filean entire file systemindividual directory entryan individual file
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GATE CSE 2026 | Set 2 | Question: 43
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 l...
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UGC NET CSE | June 2025 | Part 2 | Question: 46
Which of the followings shows the correct hierarchy of a layered file system in an operating systemLogical File SystemFile Organization ModuleBasic File SystemI/O Control...
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UGC NET CSE | January 2025 | Part 2 | Question: 27
Match the LIST-I with LIST-II$\begin{array}{|l|l|l|l|} \hline & \textbf{LIST-I} & & \textbf{LIST-II} \\ & \textbf{(FUNCTIONS)} && \textbf{(Uses of functions)} \\ \hline \...
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UGC NET CSE | December 2023 | Part 2 | Question: 52
Indexed/grouped allocation is useful as :It supports both sequential and direct access.Entire block is available for data.It does not require lots of space for keeping po...
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NIELIT Scientific Assistant June 2025 | Question: 93
What is the main purpose of a file system?To protect the system from malwareTo manage the data stored on a storage deviceTo provide networking servicesTo execute user pro...
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Indexing DBMS
"Each search key value occurs only once in the DB table ⇒ implying uniqueness ⇒ implying key"And in clustering index we say that its dense index if all clusters have only...
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File system
Consider a system where free space is kept in a free-space list.Consider a file system similar to the one used by UNIX with indexed allocation. How many disk I/O operatio...
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