CPSC 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hard Link, Inode, Root Directory

• School: UBC
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: CPSC 313
• Professor: Patrice Belleville

Document Summary

Can load multiple at the same time because they share a block. Contains le names, inode number for each le name contains no other info. Rst entry is . (own directory) second is (parent directory) Several directory entries may refer to one inode, this is called a hard link. Can be used to give a program several names. Le whose contents is the name of another le (shortcuts) Read data by either accessing the direct blocks going through up to 3 layers of indirect blocks random access to large les is faster than for the ms-dos le system. Shit can go to hell and you lose everything.