Cmpsci 677 Operating Systems 20.1 Stand-alone (unix) File System 20.2 Distributed File System
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Files are stored as uninterpreted sequence of bytes. Data inside the file is not associated with the file type. Directory comprises of file (table) that stores names of other files, metadata(inode), devices associated with those files. Inodes store file attributes and a multi-level index(levels of pointers) that has a list of disk block locations for the file. To read the file we first need to locate the metadata. Refer slides for different components of Inode and directory.
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