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How file blocks are laid out
Compare contiguous, linked and indexed allocation, and what each wastes. About 13 minutes.
Which allocation method makes reading block 500 of a file require following 499 pointers?
- ALinked allocation without a table in memory
- BContiguous allocation
- CIndexed allocation
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Linked allocation without a table in memory. Each block only knows where the next one is.
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