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Question: Calculating file sizes

Forum: Filesystems
Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 14:30:16 GMT
From: <akonopka@mtco.com>

If you have 12 direct block pointers, a singly, doubly, and triply indirect pointer in each Inode and the system block size and disk sector size are 8k, the disk block pointer is 32 bits with 8 to identify the physical disk and 24 to identify the physical block

a) what is the max file size supported within this system

b) what is the max file system partition supported by this system?

c) how many disk accesses are required to access the byte in position 13, 423,956