cs3750q11Recap

(Latest Revision: Thu May 07, 2020) cs3750q11Recap

Quiz #11 Answer Information

What you needed to know to get the questions right - you needed to know ...

... that all file systems suffer from internal fragmentation.
... that an OS uses two levels of internal open-file tables when it's possible for more than one process to open a file simultaneously.
... that it's essential to the meaning of sequential-access that in order to access block N a process must first access blocks 0 through N-1.
... that transfers between memory and disk are performed a block at a time.
... that a linear list is the simplest way to implement a directory.
... that metadata includes all of the structured information in the file system, minus the actual contents of files.