Across
- 1. What is the name of the per-file storage structure that contains details like permissions and size?
- 5. In a file system where a file is treated as a numbered series of fixed-length blocks that can be read or written in any order (random access), this type of access belongs to which method: direct access or sequential access?
- 6. Allocation method Allows for efficient entry for direct access by gathering all pointers to file’s data blocks into a single location called the…………….blocks
- 7. Which access method processes a file one record after another in order?
Down
- 2. What is the allocation method that stores a file in contiguous blocks?
- 3. Which operating system model treats every file purely as a sequence of 8-bit bytes with no internal interpretation?
- 4. What is the file attribute defined as a “unique tag (number) that identifies the file within the file system and is the non-human-readable name for the file”?