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Project 6 - File System

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<strong>Project</strong> 6<br />

<strong>File</strong>system Structure<br />

The inodes<br />

superblock<br />

inode<br />

inode<br />

...<br />

inode<br />

data block<br />

data block<br />

...<br />

Cumulatively occupy ∼ 10% of disk<br />

space.<br />

Hold information about the file and<br />

directory:<br />

Metadata, including type, size, etc..<br />

Data blocks occupied by the file.<br />

A few are directly addressable.<br />

A single block is an indirect block.<br />

data block

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