Let's say you have an iNode that is filled to capacity with no indirect pointers. If you give it one indirect pointer, does its maximum file size simply double?
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So no: The maximum file size more than doubles, since there are way more data block addresses in that single block pointed to by the indirect pointer than direct block addresses in the inode itself. |
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