Multiple choice general knowledge

Modern filesystems, like ReiserFS and XFS, use which structure to organize their data for efficient access?

  1. Lists

  2. Tables

  3. B- Trees

  4. B+ Trees

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

B+ Trees are preferred over B-Trees for filesystems because all data is stored in leaf nodes, making range queries and sequential access much faster. The leaf nodes are linked together, allowing efficient traversal of all records.