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GATE 2023 Operating System Quiz 38

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Question 1

Contiguous allocation has two problems _________ and _________ that linked allocation solves.

Question 2

The open file table has a/an __________ associated with each file.

Question 3

Consider the following statements regarding allocation methods:
S1 : Both sequential and direct access can be supported by contiguous allocation.
S2 : The pointer overhead for linked allocation is greater then indexed allocation.
Which of the above statements are not true?

Question 4

A file system with 120 GB uses a file descriptor with 4 direct block addresses, 2 indirect block addresses, and 1 doubly indirect block address. The size of each disk block is 64 Bytes and the size of each disk block address is 16 Bytes. The maximum possible file size (in bytes) in this file system is?

Question 5

Consider the following statements-

S1:- Search time for file in linked allocation is more than in contiguous allocation.

S2:- Contiguous allocation scheme efficiently implement fixed size file.


Question 6

If file size is large and if it is to be accessed randomly then which of the following allocation strategy should be best to use in a system?
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