In addition to the file name, file type, and other meta data, the file system has to keep track of various other pieces of data. How much data is stored is dependent upon the OS and it’s needs.

  • Size – of the file
  • Type – directory / executable file / data file / etc
  • Location – physical location on the disk
  • Protection – who can access the file, and what can they do with it
  • Use – last access, when created, last modified

All of this information is stored within a FCB (File Control Block)

The file system must be efficient at allowing access to a file. This includes finding files, allocating new files, and accessing files, among other tasks.

Implementation of File Directories was originally found on Access 2 Learn

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Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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