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Consider the organization of a UNIX file as represented by the inodeAssume that there are 12 direct block pointers, and a singly, doubly, and triply indirectpointer in ea...
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A file system uses continuous allocation to store data. What is the number of disk block accesses required to fetch n blocks of data ? Is it 1 or n?
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Consider an indexed file allocation using index nodes (inodes). An inode contains among other things, 14 direct indexes, one indirect index, two double indexes, and three...
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Which of these is characteristic of $\textsf{RAID 5}?$Dedicated parityDouble parityHamming code parityDistributed parity
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What does a data dictionary will identify?Field nameField formatField typesAll of the above
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What are the components of file system?
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Hello, please kindly list out the topics which are needed to be studied from topic file system?!You can also pinpoint the topics from Galvin book 7th edition.
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In a file allocation system, which of the following allocation scheme(s) can be used if no external fragmentation is allowed?ContiguousLinkedIndexed$1$ and $3$ only$2$ on...
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In particular unix OS each data block is of size 1024 bytes each node has 10 direct data blocks and 2-additional addresses one for single indirect block and one for doubl...
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I think the directory must contain atleast name and extension and an innode
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A unix I node has 10 direct pointers 1 double indirect, 1 triple indirect and 1 quadruple indirect pointers. Disk block size is 1 byte. If the max number of bytes of a fi...
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What all topics do we need to study from the topic ' File Systems' in Operating System for GATE ?
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How long does it take to load a 64Kbytes Program from a disk whose Average Seek time is 30 ms Rotation time is 20 ms, Track Size is 32 Kbytes, Page Size is 4 Kbytes . Ass...
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consider a unix file system impleneted with i-node,that resides on a disk of size 512GB.Each i-node has atotal of 15 block addresses,consisting of direct and indirect bl...
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While solving gate previous year questions on unix i-node file system implementation many people having doubt like....."Depending on the size of the file the file will be...
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Given disk block size, disk block address size, number of direct and single, double, triple indirect blocks.n = ( No of direct addresses + (db size/dba) + (db size/dba)*(...
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A file system with 512 GB disk uses a file descriptor with 16 direct block addresses, 1 indirect block address, 1 doubly indirectly block address and 1 triple indirect bl...
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A file system with 512 GB disk uses a file descriptor with 16 direct block addresses, 1 indirect block address, 1 doubly indirectly block address and 1 triple indirect bl...
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A private file system stores the directory entries the same way that the standard operating system does, except that the directory entries are 32 bytes long instead of 16...
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Consider a UNIX-like file system implemented with i-nodes that resides on a disk of size $512\text GB$. Each i-node has a total of $15$block addresses consisting of direc...
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Which of the following statements are true?S1 : Using a larger block size in fixed block size file system leads to better disk throughput but poor disk space utilization....
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Consider a file currently consisting of $50$ blocks. Assume that the file control block and the index block is already in memory. If a block is added at the end (and the ...
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Consider a disk with the following specification disk block size is 'S' bytes; Disk Block address id 'D' bits, Disk size is 'B' bytes. 'K' of the total blocks are in use....
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Consider a disk with 80 GB. The size of disk block is 8 kB. Number of blocks needed to keep track of free space if the disk is initially empty by using bit map method is ...
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In particular Unix OS, each data block is 256 bits, each node has 4 direct data block addresses and 3 additional addresses: One for single indirect block, one for double ...
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Reading a random location in a big file is faster in i-node based file systems than in FAT file systems.True or False?
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which of the following is not contained in a directory entry of a file?a) file name and extensionb) no of free blocks in the diskc) access controld) creation date