This project simulates the file allocation methods in C language. The allocation methods define how the files are stored in the disk blocks. There are three main disk space or file allocation methods.

This project simulates the file allocation methods in C language. The allocation methods define how the files are stored in the disk blocks. There are three main disk space or file allocation methods.

Contiguous allocation is a simple and fast file system algorithm that assigns each file a contiguous sequence of disk blocks. This minimizes file fragmentation and allows easy access to files ...

Lets say you setup thin-provisioning on a LUN (LUN A) and initially it's sized to 100GB but only uses 10GB (assume the data is being written in a contiguous matter), then another LUN (LUN B) is ...

The peer-to-peer file sharing tool LimeWire - updated to version 3.3.4 yesterday - is apparently one cause of "overlapped extent allocation" errors (meaning that you have two files referencing the ...

In some cases, it seems that the Mac OS 9 Disk Copy utility creates images with smaller allocation blocks than those created by the Mac OS X version. MacFixIt reader Mark Bolzan provides a case ...