Question

Which of the following statements is/are True?

I. File allocation Table (FAT) suffers from external fragmentation.
II. An inode structure can contain pointers to directory data.


a. Only I
b. Only II
c. Both I and II
d. Neither I nor II

Answer 1

The statement that the inode structure can contain pointers to directory data is true while the FAT file system does not suffer from external fragmentation, thus the correct answer is Only II.

Step-by-step explanation:

Regarding the statements provided:

1. File Allocation Table (FAT) is an older file system that does not suffer from external fragmentation because it uses a linked list approach for file allocation which prevents fragmentation by nature.
2. An inode structure is a data structure used in many Unix-like file systems to represent a file system object, which can indeed contain pointers not only to the file's data blocks but also to directory data if the inode represents a directory.

Therefore, the correct answer is b. Only II.