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Internal structure of a disk

Internal structure of a disk

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We demonstrate that the typical problem of loss in performance due to disk I/O can be efficiently dealt with by using separate strategies for the storage of file data and data structures required for file management. Furthermore, to make the design very reliable, stable storage is provided. In fact the design is reliable to the extent that even aft...

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... data on a hard disk are stored on at platters coated with a magnetic recording material. The platters are mounted on a spindle as shown in Figure 7. While the disk spins rapidly, read/write heads on an actuator arm move in tandem, toward the disk's center and back, reading and writing data. ...
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... it enters the block-descriptor(s) of the newly allocated page(s) at the block-index(ices) calculated using pageCount and absolute ooset from the le- DESCRIPTION The get attribute primitive is used to get the le-speciic attributes using a structure arg of type ATTRIBUTE. The deenition of ATTRIBUTE structure is shown in Figure 17. ...

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