CSC 553 - Operating Systems

Dr. R. M. Siegfried

Assignment #12 - File Management

Due Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Chained Allocation and Indexed Allocation both allow the system to keep track of the disk blocks that comprise a file. How vulnerable are they in the event of data corruption, access to some of the file’s data could be lost. How could this potentially happen in these two file allocation methods and how can be it prevented?

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