Multiple choice technology operating systems

inode contains ____ direct pointers to data blocks of file data

  1. 10

  2. 12

  3. 15

  4. 8
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Explanation

Traditional Unix filesystems (like ext2/3) typically use 12 direct pointers in the inode structure. These directly point to data blocks containing file data. Additional indirect pointers (single, double, triple) handle larger files that exceed the capacity of direct pointers.

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