GATE CSE · 2022 · CS
Question 63: Operating System
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Question 63
CSNAT2 marksNeeds review
Consider two file systems
and
, that use contiguous allocation and linked allocation, respectively. A file of size 100 blocks is already stored in A and also in B. Now, consider inserting a new block in the middle of the file between the 50ᵗʰ and 51ˢᵗ block, whose data is already available in the memory. Assume that there are enough free blocks at the end of the file and that the file control blocks are already in memory. Let the number of disk accesses required to insert a block in the middle of the file in
and
are
and
, respectively, then the value of
is __________.Log in to check the answer
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GATE CSE 2022 · Paper 1
Computer Science and Information Technology · Original paper archive
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- Computer Science and Information Technology
- Question type
- Numerical answer (NAT)
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- 2 marks
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