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Figure 4: Block Linkage (Chaining)
- Search chain to find required logical block
- Problems : Only suitable for sequential file access
(many accesses needed to find the
file element)
- Wastes pointer space in each block (perhaps better to use 4 contiguous blocks
and then use pointer to next cluster. How many blocks in cluster ?)
Omer F Rana
Sat Feb 15 19:06:41 GMT 1997