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What About Directories?

Explore how directories function within log-structured file systems by storing file names with inode numbers. Understand the process of accessing files through directory data and how the inode map resolves the recursive update problem, ensuring efficient updates without altering directory entries.

Thus far, we’ve simplified our discussion a bit by only considering inodes and data blocks. However, to access a file in a file system (such as /home/remzi/foo, one of our ...