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different i-node for different file type?

This is mostly a note for myself.
In 3.2.4, it is said that “for a special file, this i-node contains the major device number, and the minor device number”. This is different from what we know for normal files, where the i-node contains file access time, etc.
It is not effecient to hold one i-node structure for […]

Posted 13 September 2006 § minix ‡ Comments (0)

disk IO: interleave

I was reading about disk IO this morning. In chapter 3.1.3, it is said that the disk need to be formatted with the number interlaving, so that we’ll need less disk circlings to get the data we need.
My question is, all these is based on one assumption: that the buffer on the disk controller can […]

Posted 07 September 2006 § minix ‡ Comments (0)
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