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Explore the fundamental components of file system implementation by understanding metadata storage with inodes, directory structures, and resource tracking like bitmaps. This lesson helps you grasp how file systems manage data allocation and the design choices that optimize system performance.

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We have seen the basic machinery required in building a file system. There needs to be some information about each file (metadata), usually stored in a structure called an inode. Directories are ...