Operating Systems20805 marksImplementing Files
Differentiate between contiguous and linked list file allocation technique.
Differentiate between contiguous and linked list file allocation technique. [5]
As stated in the notes, "the simplest allocation scheme is to store each file as a contiguous run of disk blocks." Each file occupies a set of consecutive blocks on the disk. The directory entry stores only the starting block address and the length of the file. Example: A 50-KB file on a disk wit...