Review Questions Section 11.1 11.1 True or False? Disk blocks are made up of one or more sectors. True 11.2 What is the name of the standard Linux file system? Extended file system (ext3/ext4) 11.3 What is the UNIX term for a file control block? inode Section 11.2 11.4 True or False? UNIX treats a directory exactly the same as a file. True 11.5 What does the acronym VFS refer to? Virtual File system Section 11.3 11.6 What are the two general approaches for implementing a directory? Linear list list of file names with pointers to the data blocks, hash table linear list stores directory entries but a hash data structure is used greatly reducing directory search time Section 11.4 11.7 Provide at least two different approaches for allocating disk blocks to files. contiguous allocation, linked allocation, indexed allocation 11.8 True or False? The UNIX inode is an example of linked allocation. False the unix inode is an example of indexed allocation Section 11.5 11.9 What would the...
