Q. The total time to prepare a disk drive mechanism for a block of data to be read from is its

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Q. ________ is the time required by a sector to reach below read/write head.

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Q. The methods or algorithms which are used to increase the performance of disk storage subsystem is called .............

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Q. The ............... policy restricts scanning to one direction only.

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Q. ............... policy selects the disk I/O request that requires the least movement of the disk arm
from its current position.

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Q. In the linked allocation, the directory contains a pointer to the :
I. first block
II. last block

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Q. ______ is a unique tag, usually a number, identifies the file within the file system.

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Q. To create a file

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Q. By using the specific system call, we can

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Q. File type can be represented by

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Q. Which file is a sequence of bytes organized into blocks understandable by the system’s linker?

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Q. What is the mounting of file system?

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Q. Mapping of file is managed by

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Q. Mapping of network file system protocol to local file system is done by

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Q. Which one of the following explains the sequential file access method?

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Q. file system fragmentation occurs when

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Q. Management of metadata information is done by

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Q. A file control block contains the information about

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Q. Which table contains the information about each mounted volume?

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Q. To create a new file application program calls

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