Multiple choice

Disk scheduling decides

  1. which disk should be accessed next

  2. the order in which disk access requests must be served

  3. physical location of files on disk

  4. none of the above
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Disk scheduling algorithms are used by the operating system to determine the order in which pending I/O requests to the disk are processed to optimize performance, such as reducing seek time.

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