Quiz# 8: Filesystem
1. An open file table is
maintained by each process to keep track of its files.
maintained by the OS but user programs can manipulate it.
useful because it provides quick access to theinformation for an open file for further I/O operations.
2. Where is the information about a partition in a filesystem stored?
3. An inode
contains the number of files in a directory.
contains information about all directories in the filesystem.
keeps track of the disk addresses for blocks belonging to a file.
4. What does a typical directory entry contain?
5. Disk systems usually have a block size the same as the size of a sector. Do logical block sizes always equal that?
Yes
No