Filesystem Questions & Answers

This set of multiple choice SAN storage questions and answers focuses on Filesystems.

1. An “Inode” represents
a) Buffer
b) Data
c) Files & Directories
d) None of the mentioned
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2. Journaling is preferred for
a) Faster file system recovery
b) Faster write operation
c) Storing logs
d) Storing metadata
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3. Examples of Journaling filesystem
a) Ext2
b) Ext3
c) UFS
d) JFS
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4. Hard links & soft links are same
a) TRUE
b) FALSE
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5. ACL stands for
a) ACCESS control list
b) ACCESS check list
c) Audit control list
d) Audit check list
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6. VFS
a) Standalone filesystem
b) Support multiple filesystem type
c) Network filesystem
d) None of the mentioned
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7. Buffer cache helps to
a) Store data
b) Improved read/write performance
c) Allocate memory
d) None of the mentioned
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8. Wear leveling affects
a) Hard disk
b) Flash
c) Optical storage
d) RAM
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9. Deframentation is the process of
a) physically reorganizing the contents of the disk to store the pieces of each file close together and contiguously
b) Create extra space in filesystem
c) Resizing the filesystem
d) None of the mentioned
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10. The Superblock is required for
a) Description of the basic size and shape of this file system
b) This is the inode number of the first inode in the file system
c) The number of free blocks in the file system
d) All of the mentioned
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