Completing the Solution: The Checkpoint Region
Explore how the checkpoint region functions as a fixed disk location that stores pointers to the latest inode map pieces in a log-structured file system. Understand its role in efficient file lookups and maintaining performance by periodic updates.
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The clever reader (that’s you, right?) might have noticed a problem here. How do we find the inode map, now that pieces of it are also now spread across the disk? In the end, there is no magic: the file system must have some fixed and known location on ...