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Question

Consider a unix file system which uses 12 Direct and a single indirect block pointer for file implementation. Assume that the block size is 4KB and each block can hold 512 block addresses. The maximum size of a file on such a system is ___________ KB.

 ans:[12+1*8] *4KB is right or wrong ? please correct me

Comments

The maximum size of a file on such a system is meansmaximum file in system not total file size

If they ask you maximum possible file size the means  total file size

yes correct

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ashwin you are doing wrong

Block size/  DBA

[12 + 1*2¹²/2⁹]*4KB

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Okay I got it just confused a bit.

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@ anu

but 80KB is not given ans

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mohit you need to consider maximum file size i.e. due to indirect pointer not whole , i missed that line see the point i given you

Answer 1

this is answer..

Comments

yes this is given ans