Free Space Management
Explore how file systems track and allocate free inodes and data blocks by using bitmaps. Understand how managing free space with methods like pre-allocating contiguous blocks enhances file storage and system performance.
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A file system must track which inodes and data blocks are free, and which are not, so that when a new file or directory is allocated, it can find space for it. Thus free space management is important for all file systems. In vsfs, we have ...