File Systems II Starter Quiz

Match the following groups.
Group-I
A) Access time
B) Seek time
C) Rotational latency
D) Data transfer time
Group-II
1. Desired cylinder
2. Desired sector
3. Actual data
4. Total time start to end

Which of the following is correct about the reference count field in the inode ?

Consider a disk with the following characteristics, the number of surfaces is 8, the number of tracks per surface is 512 K, the number of bytes per track is 8MB, the number of sectors per track is 8K, On-disk cache size is 16 MB then the total capacity of the disk is__.

Consider 1000 KB memory is managed using variable partitions but no compaction. It currently has three partition of sizes 110 KB, 210 KB and 100 KB respectively. Which of the following is the smallest allocation request in KB that could be denied?

Consider a disk drive with the following specifications: 16 surfaces, 128 tracks/ Surfaces, 64 sectors/ track and 128 Bytes/ sector. If the format overhead is 32 Bytes/ sector, what is the effective track capacity that can be used?

Consider the following given statements:

S1: contiguous allocation method used for disk space suffers from the problem of external fragmentation

S2: Indexed allocation method supports direct access, but at the same time, it suffers from external fragmentation.

Which of the following allocation scheme does not support direct access in file allocation scheme?